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OTHER BOOKS 
By 

Dr. Willard Rouse Jillson 



GEOLOGY 
Oil and Gas Resource* of Kentucky, 1919. 
Geology and Coals of Stinking Creek, 1919. 
Contributions to Kentucky Geology, 1920. 
Economic Papers on Kentucky Geology, 1921. 
Production of Eastern Kentucky Crude Oils, 1921. 
Conservation of Natural Gas in Kentucky, 1921. 



VERSE 

Songs and Satires, 1920. 



EDWIN P.MORROW 

— Kentuckian 





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EDWIN P. MORROW 

—Kentuckian 

A Contemporaneous Biographical 
Sketch 

by 
Willard Rouse Jillson 

ILLUSTRATED 




FIRST EDITION 



Published by 

C.T. dearing printing company 

LOUISVILLE 









Copyright, 1921, by Wil'ard Rouse Jillson. 
All rights reserved. 



DEC 24 '2 



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To 

Every Loyal Kentuckian 

who regards the moral earnestness of his fellow man 

as the only stepping-stone to a great future 

for the Commonwealth 

This Litttle Book 

is 

Dedicated. 



Author's Preface. 



Leadership has always been knighted by diffi- 
culty. The worst of times brings out the best in men, 
and by this means bridges catastrophies. The close 
of the World War precipitated widespread economic 
and social crises throughout our several State domin- 
ions. Kentucky, like her sister Commonwealths, rest- 
less, discontented, yet hopeful, has struggled through 
these times, not without many indications of her dis- 
comfiture. One of the most obvious signs of the inter- 
nal pains of this State was the great political re- 
versal of 1919, which unseated a strongly entrenched 
and numerically superior Democratic party in favor 
of what had generally been considered for years, a 
small group of hopeful — yet hopeless — Republicans. 

The most conspicuous result of this reversal of 
popular opinion was the election of Edwin P. Mor- 
row as Governor of Kentucky by the greatest major- 
ity of recent years. While the partisan Republican at 
once claimed this victory somewhat boastfully and 
arrogantly, it has been all too plain that Morrow was 
quite as much the Democratic choice, since it was 
the mass of some twenty odd thousand Democrats, 

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PREFACE 

who, accepting his offer of leadership, voted for him 
and made his election and that of his ticket possible. 
The victory, therefore, belongs to the people of Ken- 
tucky rather than to either party exclusively; and 
in this light Edwin P. Morrow, the popular choice of 
the combined suffrage of this State, is a Kentuckian of 
Kentuckians. As such his personality, character, and 
executive policies assume a new importance and in- 
terest for all. 

During the revision of the last page proofs of 
this little book, the thought has come to my mind that 
some may thoughtlessly accuse me of planning a de- 
liberate appreciation of Governor Morrow and his 
party. This is not so, and nothing could be more 
contrary to the fact. While I admire Governor Mor- 
row for many of his excellent traits and abilities, I 
do not agree with many of his policies and executive 
decisions. My real purpose has been to set down in 
readable form some of the outstanding facts of re- 
cent Kentucky history, and to do so I have used both 
narrative and biography. The historical period of this 
book ends Dec. 9, 1920, the complement of Gov. Mor- 
row's first year in office. Events transpiring subse- 
quently have not been considered. Though handling 

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PREFACE 

a subject intensely political, and necessarily so, I 
have tried to avoid partisan politics throughout, stat- 
ing the facts, yet allowing the reader to draw his own 
conclusions. It is hoped for this reason, that this 
little volume will commend itself to all who may 
chance to take it up, regardless of their political 
faiths, and bring with the reading a renewed and in- 
spired belief in the future of Kentucky. 



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CONTENTS. 

Page 

Chapter I. • Ancestry and Boyhood 17 

Chapter II. Soldier and Lawyer 27 

Chapter III. Home and Public Life 33 

Chapter IV. The New Leader and His Cam- 
paign 39 

Chapter V. Governor of Kentucky 49 

Chapter VI. State and National Affairs 55 

Chapter VII. Excerpted Campaign Speeches 69 
Chapter VIII. Official Addresses and Proclam- 
ations 93 

Chapter IX. Selected Addresses and Stories 113 

Chapter X. Chronology 127 

Bibliography 138 

Index ~.. 141 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 

Page 
Edwin P. Morrow (Frontispiece) 

Robert McAfee Bradley 20 

The Morrow Twins — Edwin and Charles 24 

The Governor 's Family > 34 

Clinching the Argument 46 

Inaugural Scenes 52 

The Morrow Inaugural Parade 72 

The Morrow Home at Somerset, Ky 88 

Approving the Suffrage Bill 104 

Governor Morrow at the Capitol 116 

Bushnell 's Celebrated Cartoon 126 

Sidelights on Kentucky Politics 126 



EDWIN P.MORROW 

— Kentuckian 



Edwin P. Morrow— Kentuckwn 

CHAPTER I. 
Ancestry and Boyhood. 

It was an early July morning. The first level 
beams of the sun shot through the darkness of the 
silent corridors of that aristocratic hostelry, the 
Waldorf Astoria. Down in the main lobby an- old 
grandfather clock had just sleepily struck five, an 
unconscionable hour for staid New Yorkers or travel- 
worn guests to be awake. A Kentuckian, however, re- 
turning home from Northampton, Massachusetts, 
where, on the day before, he had formally notified 
Governor Calvin Coolidge of his nomination by the 
Republican party to the Vice Presidency of the 
United States, was already astir. 

Through the dawn-streaked hallways of that very 
famous hotel suddenly came the rattling sound of 
smashing glass, the breaking of furniture, and the 
loud, angry voices of men. The sounds of the alterca- 
tion caught the ear of the alert Southerner, staying 
him momentarily on his way to a much anticipated 

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Edwin P. Morrow — Kentuckian 

" before breakfast stroll." The door of an adjoining 
bedroom suddenly burst open, and, in less time than 
it takes to tell it, a young, athletic foreigner, pre- 
senting every appearance of a trapped wild animal 
seeking an avenue of escape, bore down upon him. 
Periods of precipitated crises allow the fundamental 
characteristics of a man's personality to assert them- 
selves. Instantly appreciating the situation, the 
Southerner threw himself against the escaping in- 
truder and there ensued a lively scuffle at the top 
of an historic stairway. 

Belated house detectives and sleepy guests in 
night clothes rushed to the scene to find the doughty 
little gentleman-guest from the Bluegrass State 
holding his assailant firmly by the collar. The burglar 
was soon identified as Peter Hermida, Montenegrin, 
a former hotel employee. His captor, it then de- 
veloped, was registered downstairs as Edwin P. 
Morrow, of Frankfort, Ky. The surprise and ad- 
miration of a score or more of guests who had wit- 
nessed the hand to hand struggle later in the day 
increased when they asked the Governor about the 
affair, and he replied: "Well, you know I'm for 
lav/ and order. ' ' 

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Edwin P. Morrow — Kentuckian 

Though brushed aside with this casual remark, 
the incident is worth much in analyzing the young 
lawyer of Somerset, whom the people of the Com- 
monwealth of Kentucky elected to be their chief 
executive on Novembr 2, 1919, by a majority of more 
than forty thousand, the largest of recent years. 
Alertness, aggressiveness, earnestness, respect for 
right and a bold initiative, coupled with a disregard 
of self in time of emergency, made him no less the 
"man of the hour" in this almost insignificant affair 
than they have in the many larger things which have 
come to him in his private life as an attorney be- 
fore the bar, or in his public life as the highest chosen 
servant of his native State. 

Americans of Scotch-Irish descent have perhaps 
contributed more to the upbuilding of this Republic 
than any other ancestry. On his father's side, Ed- 
win Porch Morrow is Scotch, whence comes his short- 
ness of stature. His great-grandparents, emigrants 
from Scotland, originally settled in Pennslyvania, in 
the old colonial days before the Revolution, in the 
vicinity of what is now known as Harrisburg. They 
were the descendants of Dwight Morrow, who was; 
a man of some parts. The Morrows have always 

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Edwin P. Morrow — Kentuchian 

recognized a distinct kinship with the American 
Murrays, and in Scotland, whence they all came, the 
two names are used interchangeably. After some 
little residence in the mountain section of Pennsyl- 
vania, one entire branch of the Morrow family moved 
over into the northwest territory, where later Mor- 
row, Ohio, came to be named after them. It is the 
proud claim of this family that Jeremiah Morrow, 
U. S. Senator for Ohio in 1813, and later, from 1822 
to 1826, the 34th Governor of the Buckeye State, 
was one of their close kin. 

From his mother, Catherine Virginia (Bradley), 
Governor Morrow gets his Irish blood. Her father 
was Robert M. Bradley, whose grandfather, William 
McAfee Bradley, came from Mayo County, Ireland, 
to this country in the days of the Old Dominion, and 
settled in Virginia. Later, a part of the family, like 
many another of that time, packed their household 
goods and chattels into wagons and on horses, and 
set their faces westward toward the new pioneer land 
* ' Kentucky, ' ' the then most westward county of 
Virginia. It was the Governor's great-grandfather, 
Isaac Bradley, who made the pioneer struggle over 
the Wilderness Trail into this State, and finally set- 

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Robert McAfee Bradley, 
The Governor's Grandfather 



Edwin P. Moerow — Kentuckian 

tied in what is now known as Madison County, Ken- 
tucky. He was a man of gigantic stature and tre- 
mendous physical power, as well befitted the needs of 
the times; a blacksmith by trade, and one of the 
first that ever came into the State. 

The Bradleys spread out in Madison County, and 
over into Garrard County, where was born March 
27, 1808, and reared, his grandfather, Robert McAfee 
Bradley, who is well remembered as the greatest land 
lawyer Kentucky has ever had. It is said he settled 
more of the great land grants and big survey titles, 
within the State, than any other, and so came to be 
known as the "Land Pirate." He was also one of 
the greatest trial lawyers Kentucky had ever pro- 
duced, and not the least among his achievements is 
the free public school system of the State, which he 
helped to establish in the face of great opposition. 

The Governor's mother was one of six children, 
five of whom were girls, and one a boy, William 
O'Connell Bradley, who was born in Lancaster, Ky., 
March 18, 1847. He became the thirty-second Gov- 
ernor of the State, and later U. S. Senator from Ken- 
tucky. His death, sadly recalled by his friends, who 
were legion, occurred in Washington, D. C, May 23, 

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Edwin P. Morrow — Kentuchian 

Thomas Zanzinger Morrow, the Governor's father, 
was born in Fleming County, Kentucky. His in- 
dustrious and farsighted Scotch parents anticipated 
for him a career above that of the ordinary, and 
sent him to school at Centre College. He was 
graduated with the class of 1855, which claims the 
unique distinction of giving a number of United 
States senators and governors to half a dozen states, 
among them, such illustrious men <as T. T. Crittenden, 
W. C. P. Breckinridge and Governor John Young 
Brown. His student days over, he came to Somerset 
to live, and it was there on November 30, 1877, that 
Governor Edwin P. Morrow and his twin brother, 
Lt. Col. Charles Haskell Morrow, were born, com- 
pleting a family of seven boys and one girl. 

Though ever busy in his private life as practicing 
lawyer and judge, the Governor's father always found 
much interest in the political affairs of his native 
State, and in 1883 was persuaded to make the race 
for Governor of Kentucky on the Republican ticket. 
He was opposed and defeated by James Proctor 
Knott, the Democratic candidate. During the Civil 
War he figured prominently and with credit as a 
Colonel of Infantry in the Union Army, and had at 
the same time three brothers in the Confederacy. He 

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was a member of the Kentucky War Senate, and one 
of the twenty-eight men who helped organize the Re- 
publican party of Kentucky. At his death he was the 
only man left in the State who had campaigned for 
Abraham Lincoln. It is said he once rushed horse- 
back from Somerset to Lexington, a distance of about 
ninety miles, to introduce General Speed, later XL 
S. Attorney General, who was then stumping the 
State for Lincoln. 

With this sort of ancestral history and political 
activity as a background, one can easily imagine 
what thoughts and desires most naturally crowded 
into the fertile young brain of the boy — Edwin P. 
Morrow. While still a youngster and hardly in school, 
he must have heard for the thousandth time the stor- 
ies of the pioneer struggles of his grandfathers who 
came from the Old Dominion over the Wilderness 
Trail, or who came down the river and forest trails of 
southern Ohio as immigrants into his native State. 
Added to these, were the memories of his father who 
championed Lincoln and the Republican party and 
stories of his campaigning activities as the Republi- 
can candidate for Governor in 1883. Is it any wonder 
then that in 1895 young Edwin, then a strippling 
seventeen years of age, should have been out on the 

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stump in school houses and court houses speaking for 
his uncle, William 0. Bradley, who was destined to 
be the next Governor of Kentucky? Success breeds 
success, and if young Morrow, then still a school boy, 
was too young to do more than think of being a gover- 
nor some time, yet he was not too young to have his 
whole soul filled with the enthusiasm of campaigning 
and its ultimate possibilities. His early love for speak- 
ing grew, and it is a well known fact that the Gov- 
ernor has always taken the greatest delight in ad- 
dressing within the school houses of the State his fel- 
low citizens on subjects built around state and na- 
tional issues. 

The independent mental and moral characteristics 
of Edwin P. Morrow asserted themselves early, and 
his father and mother desiring him to be equipped 
to undertake the broader usefulness in life for which 
he seemed to be destined, sent him when fourteen 
years of age to St. Mary's College, a general pre- 
paratory school near Lebanon, Kentucky. Here he 
remained as a student during the years of 1891 and 
1892. The boy readily appreciated his opportunities, 
and under Professor William Timmons, who will be 
remembered by many Kentuckians as a very efficient 
teacher, began his first real study of rhetoric. From 

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The Morrow Twins — Edwix and Charles 

but no one knows which one is Edwin and which one is 

Charles. Their own mother could not tell. 



Edwin P. Morrow — Kentuckian 

this school he went to Cumberland College, at Wil- 
liamsburg, Ky., where for two years his principal 
studies were built around a course in the Liberal 
Arts. Two of the greatest educators of that time 
were there, Prof. E. E. Wood, who held the chair 
of Rhetoric, Literature and Languages; and Prof. 
Gorman Jones, who taught Civil Government and 
History. Both were men of excellent and unique 
character, whose lives and teachings proved to be an 
inspiration to their students, urging them on to bet- 
ter and higher things. Young Edwin, then in his 
latter teens, felt day by day the mental stimulus of 
these men; and it may be said in truth that it was 
at this formative period in his life that his higher 
professional and political ambitions were quickened. 
While at Cumberland and St. Mary's College, he 
took an active interest in athletics, as well as in 
other school activities, playing halfback on the col- 
lege football team, and left field on the baseball nine. 
His interest in oratory never abated. He took an 
active part in a well organized debating society at 
Cumberland College, and as a member of one team 
or another took part in many a heated and interest- 
ing argument. It was the rule that every one should 
Take part in these discussions, which sometimes be- 

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Edwin P. Morrow — KentucJcian 

carae so insistent that they lasted well into the hours 
of the morning This was really excellent training 
for the future lawyer and Governor, and though, 
perhaps, he did not appreciate it fully at the time, he 
was lending his whole heart and soul to the matter 
of equipping himself for a time later on in life when 
every strategy of argument and convincing device 
of oratory would be needed to carry his point in the 
fiercely contested issues which he was to champion. 
An interesting fact concerning this little debating 
society at Cumberland College which illustrates its 
vigorous personnel, is that every member has since 
"made good" either as a lawyer or as a public 
speaker. 



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CHAPTER II. 
Soldier and Lawyer. 

When in the year 1898 there occurred in the 
Harbor of Havana that shocking naval disaster which 
wrote the name of that great battleship, "The 
Maine," in immortal letters on the pages of Amer- 
ican history, the young collegian stood momentarily 
at "Attention!" and then with his young Kentucky 
heart overflowing with patriotic impulses, he volun- 
teered as a private on June 24th, to serve in the 
Spanish-American war. He was first stationed at 
Lexington, and then moved to Anniston, Alabama, 
where he went through a period of intensive training. 
Upon the conclusion of hostilities, he was mustered 
out on February 12, 1899, with the rank of Second 
Lieutenant. Following his release from the army, 
he came back to Somerset for a short time. The call 
of the law was stronger upon him than ever, and in 
the fall of 1900 he entered the law school of the 
University of Cincinnati, from which he was gradu- 
ated in 1902 with the degree of LL. B. 

At the age of twenty-five, Edwin P. Morrow, 
fully prepared and ready to begin his life work, 

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cast about for a place in which to locate and begin 
his professional career. Lexington, the heart of the 
* ' Bluegrass, " with its many industries, rich and 
varied agricultural and mineral interests, its bright 
life and social diversions, appealed to the young 
lawyer. Without influential friends or the guiding 
hand of an older and indulgent partner to open the 
way for him to professional success, he rented a law 
office, hung out his shingle, and told the world with 
his characteristic aggressiveness that he was ready 
to go to work. In the same position as many another 
young legal practitioner, whose chief asset is deter- 
mination and independence, he soon found that the 
road he had chosen was none too easy. Like Oliver 
Wendell Holmes, trained for the practice of medicine, 
but inherently a much better after-dinner speaker, he 
must frequently have felt as did that great American 
when he first started to practice medicine, and hung 
out his shingle embellished with the line, "All Small 
Fevers Gratefully Received." The hopeful young 
Lexington lawyer did not brighten his shingle with 
humor, nor did he yield to a futile despair. He did, 
however, the next best thing; he gave himself as- 
siduously to his books in an attempt to prepare him- 
self better for the successful discharge of his tasks 

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Edwin P. Morrow — Kentuckian 

when they should come. The way in which they did 
come finally, forms a very picturesque and eventful 
chapter in his early life. 

About three months had slipped away since 
young Edwin P. Morrow, had opened his office as 
practicing attorney, when one morning in September, 
1902, notice of the coming second trial of William 
Moseby, colored, appeared in the morning Herald of 
Lexington. The case, though an old one, held the 
interest of the public. Moseby was under indictment 
by the grand jury for acts as an accomplice in the 
killing and supposed robbery of Jesse N. Hawkins, 
on Second Street, on December 8, 1900. Hawkins 
was a very prominent citizen and merchant, treas- 
urer of one of the local churches, and was thought 
to have had several thousands of dollars of church 
money on his person when he was attacked. His 
large acquaintance throughout central Kentucky, 
his sudden and tragic death, and the circumstances 
attending it, had attracted a great deal of attention. 

Lexington, as well as the whole countryside, was 
much aroused over the outrage. With Moseby, two 
white men, Jim Ratcliffe and Bert Axline, were 
charged as being accomplices in the murder and 
robbery. During the first period of intense feeling 

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Edwin P. Morrow — Kentuckian 

Moseby had made a confession. It was claimed the 
confession was extorted by the use of a large reward 
fund which had been raised, and the influence of the 
Pinkerton detectives who had been employed. The 
case had been tried before Circuit Judge Watts 
Parker, and had resulted in a hung jury. 

In view of the confession and the evident strength 
of the prosecution which was conducted by the Com- 
monwealth Attorney, John R. Allen, assisted by Col. 
Charles Bronston, many considered the outcome of 
the second trial, which was scheduled to begin Sep- 
tember 17, 1902, a foregone conclusion. Judge 
Parker tried repeatedly to get several lawyers to 
take the defense of Moseby, but they all declined 
with thanks. In his extremity, he turned his atten- 
tion to securing some poor, obscure young lawyer 
who could be more easily persuaded to take up the 
difficult defense of the negro. He selected Morrow. 

The young lawyer from Somerset accepted the 
appointment, as the judge divined he would, and 
threw himself unreservedly into this extraordinary 
criminal case to save his client Moseby, who was 
already regarded as condemned. To the surprise of 
the judge, the prosecution and the thousands who 
were intently following the case, he soon showed that 

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Edwin P. Morrow — Kentuchian 

Moseby's confession had been extorted, and that a 
very great deal of the testimony as presented was 
faulty. It was brought out that, shortly after Moseby's 
apprehension, he had been taken from the jail at Lex- 
ington to Nicholasville, ostensibly for safekeeping. 
As soon as this had been done, it was shown that the 
negro had been led to believe that a large mob had 
collected on the outside, and proposed to take him 
from the constituted authorities by force. Inherent 
fear of the hypothetical mob brought the desired con- 
fession from the negro. The success of the defense in 
undermining the testimony of the prosecution, coupled 
with an impassioned appeal by Morrow for his client, 
resulted in the acquittal of Moseby, the jury bringing 
in a verdict of "Not Guilty," September 21, 1902. 
On Tuesday morning following Jim Ratliffe and Bert 
Axline were dismissed by Judge Parker on the 
grounds of insufficient evidence. Morrow, now no 
longer ian unknown struggling attorney, had the 
double pleasure of congratulating his freed client, 
and of knowing that from the moment the jury 
brought in the verdict of "not guilty," his was a name 
henceworth to be reckoned with before the criminal 
and civil bar of Kentucky. 

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Edwin P. Morrow — Kentuckian 

Though, many, privately, still disagreed as to the 
outcome of the trial, the reputation of Ed. Morrow 
was firmly established. Those men who were within 
his own small circle of acquaintance extended him 
every congratulation. But there was outside a 
greater and much more important group of men be- 
fore whose eyes his reputation had risen suddenly 
like a new, bright star on a midsummer night to join 
that brilliant, well known constellation of grand- 
father, father and uncle. Engrossed with the many 
new calls that then began to crowd on his considera- 
tion, he but vaguely appreciated the full significance 
of his recent victory. A year and a half thus slipped 
by in Lexington before he felt an imperative call to 
politics and returned to Somerset. Back in his native 
town he found new interest in the local campaigns, 
and in 1903, in recognition of his services to his 
party, he was appointed city attorney by the city 
council of Somerset for a period of four years. 



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CHAPTER III. 
Home and Public Life. 

The story of Governor Morrow's domestic life is 
one in which there is a wealth of sentiment and hap- 
piness. The story begins far back in the days of 
his earliest boyhood. His wife, then Katherine Wad- 
dle, the daughter of his father's life-long friend, 0. 
H. Waddle, was his fellow playmate. There was also 
a background of long association between Mr. Waddle 
and the elder Morrow, which reached back to the times 
when Waddle studied law in the ''old way" in the 
office of the Governor's father in Somerset. Was 
it any wonder that these children, who were school- 
mates, and who had in common a very large number 
of family connections in that part of the State, 
should naturally have felt even at that early age a 
closer bond than that recognized by many others ? 

While young Edwin was away at St. Mary's, 
Cumberland College and the Cincinnati Law School, 
and while he was in the ranks as a volunteer during 
those momentous times of the Spanish-American War, 
his early chosen sweetheart was also away at school. 
Who can describe those happy days when vacation 

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time came between the school years, or when after 
the mustering out in Alabama, young Lt. Morrow 
returned to his home in Somerset to meet his proud 
mother and father and the glad-hearted young woman 
whom he had chosen even as a boy? 

Young lawyers must, however, like many other 
folk, have something more than prospects before 
they may establish themselves in life. And so it was 
not until after the successful conclusion of his first 
great case in Lexington, that a wedding day was 
fixed. Then on June 18, 1903, they were married in 
Somerset, Ky. Shortly after his return to Somerset 
in 1903, Governor Morrow built his home, and there 
in his native city have been born to him and Mrs. 
Morrow two splendid young Americans : a girl, 
Edwina Haskell, in July, 1904, and a boy, Charles 
Robert, in November, 1908. The growth and de- 
velopment of these children have never ceased to be 
of the greatest interest and joy to the Governor and 
Mrs. Morrow, both of whom take a sound and con- 
scientious interest in all matters which affect the 
general training and preparation for life of their 
children. 

Though busy with his duties >as attorney for the 
city of Somerset, Mr. Morrow found time to devote 

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Tin: Governor's Family 



Edwin P. Morrow — Kentuckian 

himself to a large amount of commercial work, and 
at the same time was retained as attorney for one of 
the largest land companies in Kentucky, the Bauer- 
Cooperage Company, of Lawrenceburg, Indiana. 
This company owned a forty thousand acre tract of 
timber and mineral rights in Whitley, Pulaski and 
Rockcastle counties. The adjustment of their titles 
as well as the settlement of their general legal affairs 
served to bring out the latent abilities of the young 
attorney. At the same time, and, in fact, even dur- 
ing his stay in Lexington, Morrow took an active 
part in all State and National campaigns. It was a 
compulsory round of speech making which developed 
in him the one characteristic for which he has today 
a national reputation — that of popular orator and 
after dinner speaker. 

In 1910 he was appointed U. S. District Attorney 
for the Eastern District of Kentucky, by President 
"William Howard Taft, for a period of four years, 
with headquarters at Covington, Ky. The insecurity 
which always attaches to political appointments was 
once more demonstrated in the case of Morrow, when 
upon the election of President Woodrow Wilson he 
was removed from office in 1913. 

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Edwin P. Morrow — Kentuckian 

While U. S. District Attorney in 1912 Morrow 
was caucus nominee for United States Senator, and 
opposed Ollie James, one of the strongest men Ken- 
tucky ever sent to the National Capital. He was 
very conclusively beaten, and returned to Somerset 
to live, where he took up the general practice of law. 
It is an old "saw" which advises that it is always 
darkest just before the dawn. With the gloom of 
his recent overwhelming defeat by Senator James 
still fresh in his memory, he determined in 1915, like 
many another defeated but unbeaten man, that the 
best antidote for a failure is success. Summoning 
to his support the courage of his convictions, he de- 
termined to make the race for nomination as Gover- 
nor on the Republican ticket in Kentucky. 

There were several aspirants for the honor, but 
at the Lexington convention every "starter" 
dropped out. He had no opposition within his party. 
Kentucky Republicans, as if by common consent, 
recognized in him their natural leader and standard 
bearer. Letters of congratulation, pledging the sup- 
port of hundreds known and unknown to him per- 
sonally, began to pour into Somerset by every mail. 
The name of Edwin P. Morrow, Republican candi- 
date for Governor, went forth on printed card and 

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Edwin P. Morrow — Kentuckian 

page, and by word of mouth, to the farthermost parts 
of the Commonwealth. He stumped the State thor- 
oughly, making his opening address at Bowling 
Green, September 6, 1915. 

His Democratic opponent was Augustus Owsley 
Stanley of Henderson, Kentucky, an accomplished 
lawyer and orator, with a magnetic personality, and 
a very large circle of staunch and tireless friends. 
The battle line surged back and forth across the 
State in a mightily and apparently evenly contested 
struggle. Great warmth developed in the opposing 
Democratic and Republican camps, and the flush of 
certain victory which was claimed by both spread to 
the most remote sections of the State. 

"When the count was made in November, it was 
found that Stanley had 219,991 and Morrow 219,520. 
The great hopes of the young Somerset lawyer, and 
his host of Republican friends from Paducah to 
Pound Gap, went glimmering. He was beaten on the 
face of the count by 471 votes. Disappointment 
was written plainly on many faces, but Morrow 
again showed the stuff of which he was made, for 
though repeatedly and insistently urged to contest 
the return of the ballot, he steadfastly and smilingly 
refused. Again defeated, but not beaten, he returned 

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to Somerset to practice law. From here he issued 
through the press on November 12, 1915, the follow- 
ing statement which at once revealed the high minded 
motives of the man and left no doubt even among 
his enemies of his disinterested patriotism and love 
of Kentucky: 

"After eight days of doubt the closest election 
the State has ever known is at an end. The official 
count now discloses Mr. Stanley's election by a small 
plurality, and however or by what methods obtained, 
I shall accept it as final. To plunge the State into a 
contest before the legislature would retard its pro- 
gress, stop its development, and create strife and 
bitterness. The welfare of Kentucky and its people 
and its material prosperity are above the ambition of 
any man or the success of any party. 

"Next year will see enacted an anti-lobby law, 
a corrupt practices act to protect the ballot and 
public office, and a scientific and equitable tax law, 
and in the department of State there will be an 
awakening and a guard placed over the expenditure 
of people's money. Believing that I will have been 
instrumental in procuring those results, I feel that I 
have not labored in vain."* 



* State Journal, Nov. 12, 1915, pp. 1 and 2. 

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CHAPTER IV. 

The New Leader and His Campaign. 

In June, 1919, the Republican party of Ken- 
tucky again met in convention at Lexington, and by 
acclamation chose Morrow the second time as its 
gubernatorial candidate. During the four years 
which had intervened since his last defeat, events had 
been moving along with great rapidity in political 
circles at Frankfort and Washington. Ollie M. James, 
who had beaten Morrow so thoroughly in the sena- 
torial race of 1912, had suddenly died at Washing- 
ton and his place had been filled by George B. Mar- 
tin, of Catlettsburg, Ky., who received his appoint- 
ment to the Senate from Gov. A. 0. Stanley. At the 
expiration of Senator Martin's term of one year, 
Governor Stanley became the Democratic choice for 
United States Senator. He was opposed by Dr. Ben 
L. Bruner, the Republican nominee. 

The result of this election was a victory for the 
Democrats, and in May, 1919, Augustus Owsley 
Stanley resigned his gubernatorial duties to take the 
office of United States Senator at Washington. His 
resignation created the vacancy which automatically 

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made Lieutenant Governor James D. Black Demo- 
cratic Governor of Kentucky. He filled out the term 
of office with great credit to himself and his party. 
In the August primaries, Governor Black entered 
the race for the Democratic nomination for Gov- 
ernor against the Chief Justice of the Kentucky 
Court of Appeals, John D. Carroll, and several others. 
After a hotly contested primary race, Governor Black 
succeeded by a large majority in securing the Dem- 
ocratic nomination for Governor, and entered with 
great vigor into his campaign. 

The situation throughout the State of Kentucky 
in the fall of 1919 was one which well illustrated the 
hazards of a political campaign. The change in the 
executive officer of the State had necessarily weak- 
ened the strength of the Democratic party, and, added 
to this, many alleged irregularities at Frankfort, of 
one kind and another, had been for some little time 
quite generally discussed. Morrow saw his oppor- 
tunity, and his political advisers gave him unstinted 
support. He immediately undertook to place 
Governor Black on the defensive, and his opening 
speech at Pikeville on September 8, 1919,* shows the 



* Sfr. Chap. VII, p. 

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thoroughness and effectiveness with which he mar- 
shalled logic and rhetoric to his support. 

Governor Black's campaign was honestly and 
straightforwardly carried on, but he could not meet 
effectively, nor could any man, the many criticisms 
of an administration of which he had hardly been 
a part. His high minded and courageous attempts 
to justify and satisfactorily explain many Demo- 
cratic policies not of his own making or responsibility, 
brought forth only continued disapproval from his 
closest friends and ill-concealed enjoyment from his 
enemies. During this campaign, as well as in his 
previous campaign, Morrow made more speeches and 
covered more territory than any other candidate, 
either Democrat or Republican, in any similar cam- 
paign. He averaged during this time three speeches 
a day, and in all, appeared about two hundred times 
on the platform. His most thorough campaign was 
made in the Democratic stronghold of western Ken- 
tucky, where he talked at every county seat and 
many small towns and school houses. 

Throughout his campaign for Governor, Edwin 
P. Morrow took a definite position with respect to 
his platform pledges. He had won his own nomina- 

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tion at Lexington, and was not bound to any man, 
or group of men. He had made no pledges nor 
promises to secure his nomination, and none had 
been made for him. He consequently felt free to 
offer to the people of Kentucky that high conception 
of duty in public office which knows no other com- 
pulsion than that which is imposed by circumstances 
or the best interests of the people. He said at Pike- 
ville : "To secure my election to the exalted posi- 
tion to which I honorably aspire I will not pledge a 
single office nor make a single trade. When this 
great trust comes to me, my hands shall be free to 
take it, my mind not bound by bargains, and, under 
God, my heart and conscience free to strive alone for 
the best interests of my State, if in your wisdom you 
see fit to elect me Governor of this Commonwealth." 
It was indeed a great promise, for it had been 
the habit at Frankfort from time immemorial to 
pledge all of the attractive positions in advance dur- 
ing the heat of the campaign. These were later fill- 
ed, unfortunately, not upon considerations of train- 
ing, capacity and fitness generally, but in considera- 
tion of the delivery of political influence. Such a 
system had brought into the new and the old State 

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Capitol buildings many useless commission clerks and 
officers. It had destroyed efficiency in many depart- 
ments, and turned the business of transacting the 
State's affairs into a wholesale opportunity for the 
trade and settlement of outstanding political debts 
and favors. 

Besides this fundamental promise of maintaining 
essentially a business administration, Morrow made 
a number of lesser but very important promises. He 
agreed to enforce a rigid economy in the collection 
and expenditure of public funds, to take the politi- 
cal control away from the State's charitable and 
penal institutions and put them under a non-partisan 
board of high character. He also agreed to appoint 
a non-partisan State Tax Commission of high per- 
sonnel, and do all within his power to remove politi- 
cal influence from its deliberations. 

For many years the State Text Book Commission 
had been the subject of widespread criticism and 
much of it was entirely justified. Morrow recognized 
in this matter of public education one of the most 
important problems for his consideration, and 
promised the appointment of trained and capable 
men from both parties. In conjunction with this, 

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he declared he would demand the passage of laws to 
take the Department of Education and its chief offi- 
cers, Superintendents of Public Instruction in State 
and county, out of politics. The State's great debt 
of about three (and a half million dollars he recog- 
nized as one of the things which should receive 
prompt and effective consideration, and he proposed 
by the maintenance of an economic and business ad- 
ministration of fiscal affairs to pay it through a period 
of years without adding additional burdens to the 
taxpayers of the State. 

He specifically reiterated throughout his cam- 
paign that he would not allow or countenance ap- 
pointments of special attorneys to do the legal work 
of the State for which officers were already employ- 
ed : and he further declared 'that he would not pardon 
a guilty man. These statements meant much, since 
during the Stanley administration special attorneys 
had been engaged to collect back inheritance taxes; 
professional fees for a single case as high as $125,- 
000.00, together with many concessions and com- 
promises of principal amounts due the State of Ken- 
tucky, had been arranged for a law firm in Louisville, 
and for others. He further promised not to use his 

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power to entrench either himself or his party in 
power, but to seek the confidence of the people and 
allow them as wide a participation in their affairs, 
through general publicity of them, as might be possi- 
ble. One of the last and most unique promises 
which he made, and often repeated, was not to seek 
the nomination for any other office, nor to become 
a candidate for any other public office, while he 
might be Governor. 

The closing words of his opening address which 
was made at Pikeville, Kentucky, September 8, 1919, 
are indicative of the high purpose in his appeal to 
the voters of Kentucky: 

"Upon the issues as made, I propose to wage my 
campaign. I love my State. Every fibre of my 
being thrills at the mention of her name. Every 
good impulse of my soul is dedicated to her service. 
I believe in her possibilities, her future. If love and 
hope, if energy and enthusiasm, will prevail, I 
promise with the assistance of the young and ag- 
gressive men composing our State ticket, to bring 
a new and better day to Kentucky. The issue is in 
your hands. Come what may, I am sustained by the 
consciousness of knowing that in every word that I 

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have uttered, I speak for the good of Kentucky and 
"the welfare of its people." 

But the inherent strength of the Republican plat- 
form and the vigor with which it was presented were 
not the only great factors which, entered into the 
campaign. Throughout the country in general, the 
closing of the World War and the stir of the wide 
oconomic and social reactions which was beginning 
to be felt, had brought about a great unrest in the 
liearts of many people. Kentucky had this general 
dissatisfaction, and expressed it sooner that many 
other states. Economic and social discontent soon 
find expression at the polls, because it is the careless 
American habit to lay all blame for unsatisfactory 
living conditions* on the party in power. 

The people of Kentucky in the fall of 1919 longed 
for a new order of things, and for a new leader. This 
spirit was quite general, and was found in quite as 
many Democratic homes as in Republican. During 
the campaign Democratic political leaders noticed 
with growing consternation the evident apathy of 
the Democratic voters. The Republican leaders, 
keenly alive to the situation, recognized in the slug- 
gishness of the great body of Democratic voters in 
Kentucky their real opportunity. 

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Edwin P. Morrow — Kentuckian 

Governor James D. Black, though he knew to- 
wards the end of the campaign that he was playing a 
losing game, exhibited a fine order of manly determi- 
nation, characteristic of the people from the foot- 
hills of the Cumberlands. He had a tireless energy 
even to the last. Though no longer a young man, 
the force which he put into his addresses might well 
serve as an inspiration to many a younger and am- 
bitious candidate for public office. Edwin P. Mor- 
row might have conducted the latter part of his cam- 
paign from his own doorstep in Somerset had he so 
elected, but the natural fervor and oratorical readi- 
ness of the man would not let him do so. He took 
his message to as many of his fellow citizens of the 
Commonwealth as his physical strength and speak- 
ing vigor would allow. With an inspiration which 
few have equalled, he continued his public addresses, 
and drew the very largest crowds and popular sup- 
port up to the night before election day when he 
spoke at Louisville. 

The election of November 2, 1919, was one of the 
most unusual in its political significance that the 
people of Kentucky have witnessed within recent 
years. Both parties claimed success until late in the 

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afternoon. Throughout the State, and especially in 
Kentucky's largest city, Louisville, and in many ob- 
scure mountain towns where the Republican feeling 
ran the highest, the result of the ballot count was 
noted with intense interest. Throughout the night 
and into the morning of November 3rd, returns were 
flashed over a thousand wires and on to stereopticon 
screens in a hundred cities. 



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CHAPTER V. 

Governor of Kentucky. 

The morning newspapers of November 3d an- 
nounced the election of Edwin P. Morrow and the 
entire Republican ticket by a majority conceded to 
be 15,000. The afternoon papers of the same day 
raised this conceded majority to 25,000 and printed 
the telegraphic congratulations of Governor James 
D. Black to Governor-elect Edwin P. Morrow. Be- 
cause a large number of the mountain counties are 
scattered and outlying districts, the whole vote was 
not ascertained until Wednesday night, November 
4th, when it was announced without question that by 
one of the greatest political turnovers that had taken 
place in Kentucky in recent years, the Republican 
candidate from Somerset had been swept into office 
with his entire ticket by a majority of 41,176 votes. 

The news electrified both Democrats and Re- 
publicans throughout Kentucky, for though many had 
come to. look upon the Republican success as assured, 
the actual figures, when they were given, seemed un- 
believable. It was argued that Kentucky, a state 

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normally Democratic by 30,000 votes, could not in 
the very nature of things have swung so far to the 
other side. Those who persisted in questioning the 
accuracy of the vote were those who had most stead- 
fastly refused to recognize that the people wanted a 
change in the government of the State. The great 
weakness of the Democratic party had been its re- 
fusal to recognize that a dissatisfied people is always 
stronger than any party. 

Days passed. The vote as announced, was not 
contested. On December 9th, Morrow came up 
from Somerset to Frankfort and was inaugurated 
Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky in the 
presence of twenty thousand people. Many of those 
present came in large delegations with bands and 
costumes and some came in special trains from the 
distant parts of the State. The parade, two miles 
long, and headed by General Summerail and a picked 
company of cavalry, and infantry of the 1st Division 
from Camp Zachary Taylor, at Louisville, Ky., led 
the march of the riotous thousands who came to do 
honor to the new Chief Executive of the State. Many 
floats of unique and picturesque design were in the 
line of march, and not least among them was the 

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old time log cabin. One delegation, eliminating the 
costly, showy float, simply equipped itself with a 
great leather hoot, newly copper-toed. This symbol 
it carried on high and with it attracted quite as much 
attention as any other part of the parade. Today, 
the pageantry, the uniforms, and the tuneful bands, 
have all vanished, but if a visitor in the Governor's 
office will but look about him, he will see on a favored 
shelf a great copper-toed leather boot, and learn, if 
he takes the trouble to do so, that it is one of the 
most prized relics of that memorable occasion. 

Following the preliminaries of the inaugural cer- 
emonies proper, the retiring Governor, James D. 
Black, made an address of some length. He was fol- 
lowed by the Governor-elect, whose terse, vigorous 
and inspiring oratory found a warm reception in the 
hearts of the assembled thousands. In words which 
carry one back in thought to the pure, direct style 
of the great President of Civil War times, he began : 
' ' In this hour I am at once the proudest and humblest 
of men. Proud beyond words of the confidence of 
the people of my State, and of the loyalty of my 
friends; humble in the consciousness of the great re- 
sponsibility in the presence of supreme duty." He 

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closed, saying: "I am about to enter upon the dis- 
charge of the arduous duties of my office. In my 
weakness I appeal for strength to the one great 
source of strength, and humbly pray that the God 
who makes and unmakes nations, and who holds His 
people in the hollow of His hand, will give me vision 
to see and strength to do the right; that He w r ill 
keep my feet on the paths of duty and sustain me 
in the administration of law and justice, all to the 
end that I may maintain the honor of the State 
and promote the welfare of its people." He then 
turned to the Chief Justice of the Kentucky Court of 
Appeals, John D. Carroll, who administered to him, 
£nd .to Lieutenant Governor S. Thruston Ballard, the 
oath of office. 

A tremendous ovation followed. Meanwhile many 
surged into the new Capitol building. Through the 
crowd at the State reception a graying countryman 
edged his way forward, touched the Governor on the 
.arm, and asked if he would give him one of the many 
inaugural roses as a special remembrance to take 
back to his old and infirm mother. An attendant, in 
his haste, plucked one without a stem from a nearby 
bouquet, and was presenting it to the man, when the 

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Inaugural Scenes 

1. Chief Justice Carroll administering the oath of office to 
Edwin P. Morrow and S. Thruston Ballard. 

2. Governor Morrow. Lieut. -Gov. Ballard. Ex-President of the 
Senate Harris and Congressman Langley hearing Governor Black. 



Edwin P. Morrow — Kentuckian 

Governor's quick eye caught the look of disappoint- 
ment which came over the sunburned, wrinkled face. 
Stepping over to the same bouquet and carefully 
withdrawing the largest and fairest flower of them 
all, he turned to the man and said : ' ' Here, take this 
to your old mother, and tell her it is the first favor, 
given gladly, by the new Governor of Kentucky." 
It was a great day for Ed. Morrow. 



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CHAPTER VI. 

State and National Affairs. 

Though watched pots seem slow in boiling, the 
march of human events is for the most part rapid. 
Almost within a month from the day that Edwin P. 
Morrow became Governor of Kentucky the General 
Assembly convened in its regular session, January 6, 
1920. It was early indicated that the Republicans 
would control the House by a safe majority, and that 
the Democrats would control the Senate by two votes. 
The membership in the higher chamber was made 
up of twenty Democrats and eighteen Republicans. 

The first real test of partisanship came with the 
decision of the Democratic members of the Senate to 
control the legislation of that body. Had they voted 
as a unit, much of the progressive and desirable leg- 
islation placed upon the statute books of Kentucky 
in 1920 would have been defeated. But defection 
appeared in the Democratic ranks when Senator Bur- 
ton, of Grant County, refused to follow the action of 
the Democratic caucus in its rules proposals. He 

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was so severely criticized for this action by the other 
Democratic members of the Senate that he virtually 
left the party to vote with the Republicans on all im- 
portant public legislation. Senator Burton's action 
tied the Senate, and virtually gave to the Republicans 
of the 1920 General Assembly control of both branches 
of the legislature in the vote of the Lieutenant Gov- 
ernor, S. Thruston Ballard. 

Closely following upon the disclosure of their un- 
expected strength, the Republicans proceeded to in- 
troduce and pass in orderly sequence, though not 
without much heated argument and bickering 
from the Democratic ranks, practically all of 
the promised legislation of the 1919 Republi- 
can platform. The " Board of Charities and 
Corrections" was designed to take the place 
of the old "Board of Control" over the charitable 
and penal institutions. Under the new order, these 
institutions were authorized to employ men for their 
competency, rather than for their loyalty or party 
service. By pressing this reform Governor Morrow 
brought down upon himself the merciless criticisms 
of many members of his own party, as the press of 

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the State during the past year will attest. To the 
" party for profit" man, it seemed wrong to deliver 
the fruits of the recent hard earned victory to the 
enemy, but Morrow stood true to his pledges and 
saw that distinterested action was taken. The im- 
mediate result of this new legislation, it is now agreed 
by Kentuckians generally, has been for the good of 
both the many unfortunates of the State and the tax- 
payers. Mistakes of course have been made, but not 
intentionally, and in most cases they have been or 
are now being corrected. It is now generally ac- 
knowledged that in the not too far distant future 
"Morrow's plan" will bring many sorely needed 
reforms and improvements. 

Considered broadly, no session of the General 
Assembly has been more far-reaching in educational 
legislation than the first session just past under Gov- 
ernor Morrow. The entire school system of the State 
has been revised and remodeled, and plans have been 
laid for the ultimate elimination of partisan politics 
in matters educational. The pay of the graded 
school teacher has been more than doubled, and the 
conditions under which she must labor have been 
materially improved. 

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Perhaps one of the most striking pieces of "Mor- 
row" legislation was the bill passed and known as 
the Non-Partisan Judiciary which, if properly ad- 
hered to, will remove from the Kentucky bench much 
of the strife and bitterness common under the old 
system. At the present, it is too early to fairly 
evaluate this bill. And in this case, as in that of 
many other pieces of remedial legislation, it is not 
to be expected that the approval of the entire people 
will ever be secured. It was, however, another of 
Governor's Morrow's pledges to the people fulfilled. 

The 1920 General Assembly in passing the "Moss" 
highway bill completed the most important and con- 
spicuous piece of road legislation ever attempted in 
Kentucky. Not only were many new and better sys- 
tems of roads provided for than in the past, but, as 
in the case of the schools, the judiciary, and the penal 
and charitable institutions, the work of their con- 
struction was removed from the category of political 
spoils. The new road system, now in use, though by 
no means perfect, is so great an advance over that of 
the past that even the most partisan critic of the 
Governor and his proposals accepts its principle. Let 
the future revise it here and there and reinforce it 

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with more substantial appropriations, and Kentucky 
will come to see as excellent a system of State high- 
ways as exists in any commonwealth of the South. 

Aside from the legislative program which Gov- 
ernor Morrow brought to fulfillment, he has found 
opportunities during the past year to display his 
executive ability in many other channels. Late in 
January, 1920, Will Lockett, a negro, outraged and 
murdered, in Fayette County, a little white girl, 
Geneva Hardman. Lockett was arrested and 
brought to the Reformatory at Frankfort, Kentucky, 
for safekeeping. "While there incarcerated, a mob 
hearing of his whereabouts came to Frankfort in 
automobiles, ostensibly to remove and lynch him. 
Governor Morrow stepped into the affair, personally, 
and in the small hours of the morning persuaded the 
mob to return to Lexington. 

When in February, Lockett was called to trial in 
Lexington, Governor Morrow placed about the Fay- 
ette county court house a company of soldiers, not 
so much to protect the negro, but in protecting him 
to protect the law. A mob of several thousand peo- 
ple lined themselves up, and a number attempted to 
storm the court house during the trial to remove the 

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prisoner. They were repelled by the soldiers and, 
in the fracas, a number of persons were injured and 
killed. Lockett was speedily convicted of murder 
and given the death penalty. He was executed at 
EddyviHe in March, 1920. 

As a result of his action in preventing such an 
openly proposed lynching, Governor Morrow was 
very harshly criticized by many partisans. The 
sober, straight thinking people all over this State, 
and the nation, however, immediately hailed him 
as a new force for law and order in a time of need. 
In this crisis, as in every other in which he has had 
an opportunity to assert himself, Morrow has calmly 
displayed the same reverence for the strict procedure 
of law and constituted authority. It would seem that 
all his experience of life has so indelibly stamped it- 
self upon his mind that nothing can induce him to 
intentionally allow the slightest laxity in the en- 
forcement of the statutes. His refusal to pardon the 
guilty "pistol toter," his readiness to send State 
troops wherever needed, his utter disregard of per- 
sonal safety at many time of crisis, have encouraged 
the people of the State to feel that in spite of the 
recognized crime wave that has inundated the land 

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during the past year or two, order will finally be 
secured. Time may be depended upon to give due 
credit to Governor Morrow for the part he has played 
in the maintenance of law and order. 

The inauguration of cabinet meetings of State 
officers about the Governor's table, and the generally 
close circumspection with which the affairs of all of 
the departments of the State have been watched, may 
be seen as straws before the wind indicating a change 
in the administration of the State's business at 
Frankfort. In keeping with his campaign pledge, 
executive clemency has been exercised with much re- 
serve by Governor Morrow. During his first year in 
office, just completed, he made an even 100 pardons, 
remissions and commutations of penal sentences. 
Though this figure may seem large to the uninformed, 
it is a demonstrable fact* that it is the best and 
lowest record in point of numbers of any recent Gov- 
ernor of Kentucky. It is not to be assumed, however, 
that costly mistakes will not be made, nor that Ed. 
Morrow, unlike any other Governor, will not be im- 
posed upon, even perhaps by some of his trusted 



* During their first year in office, Governor Beckham 
"pardoned" 350, Governor McCreary 139, and Governor 
Stanley 257 — official records, Sec'y of State of Kentucky. 

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friends. But the program already achieved exhibits 
much that is being commented upon favorably by 
both Democrats and Republicans who really have the 
nest interests of Kentucky at heart. 

The year 1920 brought with it the great struggle 
in national politics for the Presidency of the United 
States. In the opening scenes of this great political 
drama, at the Chicago convention, Kentucky took her 
place on the stage, robed as a Republican, greatly in 
contrast to her usual Democratic attire. In the cam- 
paign of 1916, Ed. Morrow had been one of the dele- 
gates from Kentucky, but with little or no oppor- 
tunity to show his ability as a national figure, because 
of his then recent though very close defeat for Gov- 
ernor of Kentucky, by Augustus Owsley Stanley. 

In the year 1920, Governor Morrow again attend- 
ed as a delegate from Kentucky, but this time in the 
role of a conquering hero, the Republican Governor 
of a Democratic State, Which he had carried by an 
overwhelming majority. His voice and his counsels 
were now heard on many occasions in that mem- 
orable assembly, both in public and in private. 
Wherever his name was spoken, it seemed to be the 
signal for widespread applause. Public admiration 

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for the man increased daily, until his name came to 
be talked of freely as a very possible nominee for 
the Vice Presidency of the United States. Had he 
not been persistent and outright in his refusal to 
consider himself a candidate for this office, he would 
without doubt have been nominated.* No one will 
ever guess how much it cost Ed. Morrow in that 
hour of personal triumph to say "No" to proposals 
which most Americans call nattering. Men, watch- 
ful of his conduct, caught then something of the 
dominant will and principle of the newly made Gov- 
ernor of Kentucky. Throughout his own State there 
was a pause political when it was seen that he was 
preparing to spend himself without stint in the forth- 
coming campaign to aid in the election of a Yankee 
to the very position of trust and honor which had 
been offered him. 

After the nomination of President Warren G. 
Harding and Vice President Calvin Coolidge, and 
the close of the great Republican convention, Gover- 
nor Morrow was in demand all over the Eastern 
United States as a public speaker. To him fell the 



* Cincinnati Enquirer and Louisville Herald, June 7, 
1920. 

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happy, though oddly coincidental lot of delivering 
the notification speech at Northampton, Mass., July 
27, 1920, to Calvin Coolidge. 

"You are called," he said, addressing the then 
Governor Coolidge, "to serve your country at a time 
of your country's need. At home grave economic, 
industrial, social and governmental problems have 
too long in the past, and even now continue to press 
for and demand a solution ; and on their proper solu- 
tion depends the prosperity of the commercial and 
financial welfare of our own people. This nomina- 
tion is tendered you as the spontaneous and over- 
whelming wish of your party. . . . The West 
called to the East — North and South heard the call, 
and the nation made answer. The Republic has faith 
in Massachusetts . . . and the proven courage 
of Massachusetts' Chief Executive. We are met to- 
day on sacred soil — 'hallowed by the memory of sacri- 
fice and service to the cause of liberty, ... in 
this hour so vital to our future as a great free people, 
in this hour of strange beliefs and far driftings from 
the old known landmarks of national policy, it is 
. . . well . . . that we solemnly determine 
that the heritage which has made us free, independent 

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and prosperous shall not be bartered for a mess of 
unknown pottage." 

Throughout the North and Northwest tens of 
thousands cheered to the echo this earnest appeal of 
Governor Morrow not to abandon the old time na- 
tional standards for those less tried and sure. His 
Northampton speech was in effect a denunciation 
in no uncertain terms of the proposed participation 
by the United States as an active member in the 
League of Nations. What heat that contention at- 
tained as a national discussion, and to what propor- 
tions the "League of Nations" finally grew as a 
political argument, the reader does not need to be in- 
formed. Returning to Kentucky, Governor Morrow 
conducted a very brilliant and popular campaign for 
Harding and Coolidge, in which he was assisted in 
the mountain section of the State by Col. Theodore 
Roosevelt, the son of the great President. In his 
mairy "stump" contentions he may not always have 
been exactly right, but who will say that his casual 
error was not an honest one, free from sordid 
partisanship and true to his belief in a great prin- 
ciple? To him, the entering of the league meant a 
sacrifice on the nation's part of much which America 

65 



Edwin P. Moreow — Kentuckian 

has always held dear. His sincerity of conviction on 
this point is reflected in every one of his many cam- 
paign speeches, and their great number is some wit- 
ness of the zeal with which he championed the Hard- 
ing renewal of the faith of our Fathers. 

One year of Governor Morrow's administration 
has passed into history. The record is spread across 
many a printed and written sheet. The observer, 
if he be steeled to impartiality, will see here and 
there among the noteworthy items, the unmistakable 
brand of error. For though it be costly to make mis- 
takes, to err is to be human, and Edwin P. Morrow, 
idol though he be to many, is assuredly very human. 
The thoughtful reader of these accounts must ac- 
knowledge a wholesome appreciation of the services 
to the people which the Governor has rendered 
through his own executive deeds and those of his ad- 
ministration. Three years, the really long and criti- 
cal time, lie ahead. Rose-strewn pitfalls and snares, 
watched by many an adventuresome political mal- 
content and the fates, wait on every side. The pres- 
ent Governor of Kentucky, like many of his prede- 
cessors, may, while sensing the greatest security and 
attempting the largest public service, become en- 

66 



Edwin P. Morrow — Kentuckian 

meshed in some of these treacherous pitfalls. It is 
certain, however, that he will find his way ont as a 
gentleman and as an honest public servant. 

As Governor of this State, Edwin P. Morrow 
necessarily assumed responsibility for the work of 
the 1920 General Assembly. Much that was laid on 
the statute books was experimental. Some of the 
laws, it is already seen, must be changed. To Gov- 
ernor Morrow will be given again in a few short 
months, at the convening of the legislature of 1922, 
the great responsibility of weeding out that which 
is bad and retaining that which is good. It is a 
difficult problem made the more intricate by the 
many complexities of personal ambition and politi- 
cal fortune which are certain to develop on the leg- 
islative floor. His, day by day and alone, is the 
grave duty of guiding in safety the ' ' Ship of State ' ' 
through the future's uncharted perilous seas and 
into the port. The temperament of the people 
throughout the State and nation has been sorely 
tried by the convulsive aftermath, social and eco- 
nomic, of the greatest war of history. The present 
and the near future are indeed no times for a weak- 
ling to be at the helm. It is rather a time for a man 

67 



Edwin P. Morrow — Kentuchian 

of the broadest vision and soundest principle who, 
strong in the courage of his convictions, stands every 
inch a Captain, ready, regardless of personal cost, 
to do that which is best for the "Old Common- 
wealth ' ' — Kentucky. 



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CHAPTER VII. 

Excerpted Campaign Speeches. 

That Governor Morrow owes much of his success 
as a political campaigner and popularity as an after- 
dinner speaker to his unusual gifts as an orator, can- 
not be denied. These forensic talents which were 
in a measure inherited by him from an immediate an- 
cestry of able stump and parlor speakers, asserted 
themselves early in his youth. He recognized his 
gifts of speech and put them to good use while yet 
a lad during his father's and his uncle's campaigns. 
As a result of these youthful efforts, ere he was aware 
he had become a popular idol of story telling and de- 
bate. During his own campaigns the magnetic quality 
of his personal convictions and enthusiasm came to 
add a lustre to his genius of speech which has now 
become widely recognized. 

Address of Edwin P. Morrow, 
Republican Candidate for Governor of Kentucky, 

Bowling Green, Kentucky, September 6, 1915. 
"Ladies and Gentlemen: — 

"Political campaigns are primarily for the benefit 
of the people, not the politicians. The period pre- 
ceding an election of the State's executive and legis- 

69 



Edwin P. Morrow — Kentuckian 

lative officers is the time of investigation and dis- 
cussion; a time in which an accounting for steward- 
ship should be demanded and given in order that 
responsibility may be fixed; that the good and faith- 
ful servant may be rewarded and the unfaithful 
servant rebuked. 

"Political parties act only through their selected 
agents and, therefore, every party is responsible for 
the acts and conduct of its agents, for the good or 
bad they do, for the results and conditions which 
they produce. If a political party, through its 
agents, has kept faith with the people, efficiently and 
honestly managed the fiscal affairs and produced the 
beneficial results of good government, such a party 
deserves the confidence of the people and should be 
given the control of their affairs. If, however, 
through its agents, it has broken faith, failed in its 
promises, and proved inefficient and extravagant in 
the management of public business, it should be de- 
nied the trust and suffrage of the people and the 
party of opposition should be entrusted with the 
affairs of State. 

"The ballot of rebuke is the great weapon of the 
people and by its proper use alone can political par- 

70 



Edwin P. Morrow — Kentuckian 

ties be compelled to fulfill promises and render good 
and faithful service. On these conditions we pro- 
pose to discuss with you today the promises and deeds 
of your public servants who have, for four years, had 
the control of your affairs and who are responsible 
for the expenditure of your money and the general 
condition of your business. In this discussion, I want 
it clearly and fully understood that any criticism I 
may make is intended for officers, agents and officials 
in their official capacities and not for the great body 
of conscientious citizens. 

Broken Promises. 

"The platform of a party is its given word of 
honor and when accepted by the suffrage of the peo- 
ple to whom it is given, it becomes a solemn contract 
sealed with the great seal of the Commonwealth. 

1 ' Pour years ago the Democratic party made such 
a covenant with the people of Kentucky. Today, I 
charge the wilful breach of that covenant, both in 
letter and in spirit. 

Platform Pledges. 
"The Republican party presents to the people of 
Kentucky a plain, progressive platform embodying a 
complete system of constructive and remedial legis- 

71 



Edwin P. Morrow — Kentuchian 

lation. It stands for good roads, and congratulates 
itself that the present good roads law was framed 
and passed by the untiring efforts of a Republican 
State Senator. It stands for more schools and school 
houses, for a longer school term, and for the exten- 
sion of the State's institutions of higher learning, 
and for the complete elimination of all politics from 
the public schools. It stands for the non-partisan 
control of all penal and charitable institutions. This 
party is pledged to the enactment of a Workmen's 
Compensation Lav/ and is the first party in Kentucky 
to make such a pledge for the benefit of those who 
risk life and limb in the hazardous occupations of 
mill and factory and railroads and those who toil in 
the midnight darkness of the mines; it is pledged to 
the passage of a law which will provide a fair system 
to protect and care for those who are maimed by 
accident and for their wives and children. Such a 
law can and should be provided. 

"We believe in increasing the powers of the pres- 
ent Railroad Commission by giving it jurisdiction 
over the other public utilities of the State. 

"My party believes in a Corrupt Practice Act. It 
was the first party to pledge the passage of such an 

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Edwin P. Morrow — Kentuckian 

for the man increased daily, until his name came to 
be talked of freely as a very possible nominee for 
the Vice Presidency of the United States. Had he 
not been persistent and outright in his refusal to 
consider himself a candidate for this office, he would 
without doubt have been nominated. * No one will 
ever guess how much it cost Ed. Morrow in that 
hour of personal triumph to say "No" to proposals 
which most Americans call nattering. Men, watch- 
ful of his conduct, caught then something of the 
dominant will and principle of the newly made Gov- 
ernor of Kentucky. Throughout his own State there 
was a pause political when it was seen that he was 
preparing to spend himself without stint in the forth- 
coming campaign to aid in the election of a Yankee 
to the very position of trust and honor which had 
been offered him. 

After the nomination of President Warren G. 
Harding and Vice President Calvin Coolidge, and 
the close of the great Republican convention, Gover- 
nor Morrow was in demand all over the Eastern 
United States as a public speaker. To him fell the 



* Cincinnati Enquirer and Louisville Herald, June 7, 
1920. 

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Edwin P. Morrow — Kentuckian 

happy, though oddly coincidental lot of delivering 
the notification speech at Northampton, Mass., July 
27, 1920, to Calvin Coolidge. 

"You are called," he said, addressing the then 
Governor Coolidge, "to serve your country at a time 
of your country's need. At home grave economic, 
industrial, social and governmental problems have 
too long in the past, and even now continue to press 
for and demand a solution ; and on their proper solu- 
tion depends the prosperity of the commercial and 
financial welfare of our own people. This nomina- 
tion is tendered you as the spontaneous and over- 
whelming wish of your party. . . . The West 
called to the East — North and South heard the call, 
and the nation made answer. The Republic has faith 
in Massachusetts . . . and the proven courage 
of Massachusetts' Chief Executive. We are met to- 
day on sacred soil — hallowed, by the memory of sacri- 
fice and service to the cause of liberty, ... in 
this hour so vital to our future as a great free people, 
in this hour of strange beliefs and far driftings from 
the old known landmarks of national policy, it is 
. . . well . . . that we solemnly determine 
that the heritage which has made us free, independent 

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Edwin P. Morrow — Kentuckian 

and prosperous shall not be bartered for a mess of 
unknown pottage." 

Throughout the North and Northwest tens of 
thousands cheered to the echo this earnest appeal of 
Governor Morrow not to abandon the old time na- 
tional standards for those less tried and sure. His 
Northampton speech was in effect a denunciation 
in no uncertain terms of the proposed participation 
by the United States as an active member in the 
League of Nations. What heat that contention at- 
tained as a national discussion, and to what propor- 
tions the "League of Nations" finally grew as a 
political argument, the reader does not need to be in- 
formed. Returning to Kentucky, Governor Morrow 
conducted a very brilliant and popular campaign for 
Harding and Coolidge, in which he was assisted in 
the mountain section of the State by Col. Theodore 
Roosevelt, the son of the great President. In his 
many "stump" contentions he may not always have 
been exactly right, but who will say that his casual 
error was not an honest one, free from sordid 
partisanship and true to his belief in a great prin- 
ciple? To him, the entering of the league meant a 
sacrifice on the nation's part of much which America 

65 



Edwin P. Morrow — Kentuckian 

has always held dear. His sincerity of conviction on 
this point is reflected in every one of his many cam- 
paign speeches, and their great number is some wit- 
ness of the zeal with which he championed the Hard- 
ing renewal of the faith of our Fathers. 

One year of Governor Morrow's administration 
has passed into history. The record is spread across 
many a printed and written sheet. The observer, 
if he be steeled to impartiality, will see here and 
there among the noteworthy items, the unmistakable 
brand of error. For though it be costly to make mis- 
takes, to err is to be human, and Edwin P. Morrow, 
idol though he be to many, is assuredly very human. 
The thoughtful reader of these accounts must ac- 
knowledge a wholesome appreciation of the services 
to the people which the Governor has rendered 
through his own executive deeds and those of his ad- 
ministration. Three years, the really long and criti- 
cal time, lie ahead. Rose-strewn pitfalls and snares, 
watched by many an adventuresome political mal- 
content and the fates, wait on every side. The pres- 
ent Governor of Kentucky, like many of his prede- 
cessors, may, while sensing the greatest security and 
attempting the largest public service, become en- 

66 



Edwin P. Morrow — Kentuchian 

meshed in some of these treacherous pitfalls. It is 
certain, however, that he will find his way out as a 
gentleman and as an honest public servant. 

As Governor of this State, Edwin P. Morrow 
necessarily assumed responsibility for the work of 
the 1920 General Assembly. Much that was laid on 
the statute books was experimental. Some of the 
laws, it is already seen, must be changed. To Gov- 
ernor Morrow will be given again in a few short 
months, at the convening of the legislature of 1922, 
the great responsibility of weeding out that which 
is bad and retaining that which is good. It is a 
difficult problem made the more intricate by the 
many complexities of personal ambition and politi- 
cal fortune which are certain to develop on the leg- 
islative floor. His, day by day and alone, is the 
grave duty of guiding in safety the ■ ' Ship of State ' ' 
through the future's uncharted perilous seas and 
into the port. The temperament of the people 
throughout the State and nation has been sorely 
tried by the convulsive aftermath, social and eco- 
nomic, of the greatest war of history. The present 
and the near future are indeed no times for a weak- 
ling to be at the helm. It is rather a time for a man 

67 



Edwin P. Morrow — Kentuckian 

of the broadest vision and soundest principle who, 
strong in the courage of his convictions, stands every 
inch a Captain, ready, regardless of personal cost, 
to do that which is best for the "Old Common- 
wealth ' ' — Kentucky. 



68 



CHAPTER VII. 

Excerpted Campaign Speeches. 
That Governor Morrow owes much of his success 
as a political campaigner and popularity as an after- 
dinner speaker to his unusual gifts as an orator, can- 
not be denied. These forensic talents which were 
in a measure inherited by him from an immediate an- 
cestry of able stump and parlor speakers, asserted 
themselves early in his youth. He recognized his 
gifts of speech and put them to good use while yet 
a lad during his father's and his uncle's campaigns. 
As a result of these youthful efforts, ere he was aware 
he had become a popular idol of story telling and de- 
bate. During his own campaigns the magnetic quality 
of his personal convictions and enthusiasm came to 
add a lustre to his genius of speech which has now 
become widely recognized. 

Address of Edwin P. Morrow, 
Republican Candidate for Governor of Kentucky, 

Bowling Green, Kentucky, September 6, 1915. 
"Ladies and Gentlemen: — 

' ' Political campaigns are primarily for the benefit 
of the people, not the politicians. The period pre- 
ceding an election of the State's executive and legis- 

69 



Edwin P. Morrow — Kentuchian 

lative officers is the time of investigation and dis- 
cussion; a time in which an accounting for steward- 
ship should be demanded and given in order that 
responsibility may be fixed; that the good and faith- 
ful servant may be rewarded and the unfaithful 
servant rebuked. 

"Political parties act only through their selected 
agents and, therefore, every party is responsible for 
the acts and conduct of its agents, for the good or 
bad they do, for the results and conditions which 
they produce. If a political party, through its 
agents, has kept faith with the people, efficiently and 
honestly managed the fiscal affairs and produced the 
beneficial results of good government, such a party 
deserves the confidence of the people and should be 
given the control of their affairs. If, however, 
through its agents, it has broken faith, failed in its 
promises, and proved inefficient and extravagant in 
the management of public business, it should be de- 
nied the trust and suffrage of the people and the 
party of opposition should be entrusted with the 
affairs of State. 

"The ballot of rebuke is the great weapon of the 
people and by its proper use alone can political par- 

70 



Edwin P. Morrow — Kentuckian 

ties be compelled to fulfill promises and render good 
and faithful service. On these conditions we pro- 
pose to discuss with you today the promises and deeds 
of your public servants who have, for four years, had 
the control of your affairs and who are responsible 
for the expenditure of your money and the general 
condition of your business. In this discussion, I want 
it clearly and fully understood that any criticism I 
may make is intended for officers, agents and officials 
in their official capacities and not for the great body 
of conscientious citizens. 

Broken Promises. 

"The platform of a party is its given word of 
honor and when accepted by the suffrage of the peo- 
ple to whom it is given, it becomes a solemn contract 
sealed with the great seal of the Commonwealth. 

"Four years ago the Democratic party made such 
a covenant with the people of Kentucky. Today, I 
charge the wilful breach of that covenant, both in 
letter and in spirit. 

Platform Pledges. 
"The Republican party presents to the people of 
Kentucky a plain, progressive platform embodying a 
complete system of constructive and remedial legis- 

71 



Edwin P. Morrow — Kentuckian 

lation. It stands for good roads, and congratulates 
itself that the present good roads law was framed 
and passed by the untiring efforts of a Republican 
State Senator. It stands for more schools and school 
houses, for a longer school term, and for the exten- 
sion of the State's institutions of higher learning, 
and for the complete elimination of all politics from 
the public schools. It stands for the non-partisan 
control of all penal and charitable institutions. This 
party is pledged to the enactment of a Workmen's 
Compensation Law and is the first party in Kentucky 
to make such a pledge for the benefit of those who 
risk life and limb in the hazardous occupations of 
mill and factory and railroads and those who toil in 
the midnight darkness of the mines; it is pledged to 
the passage of a law which will provide a fair system 
to protect and care for those who are maimed by 
accident and for their wives and children. Such a 
law can and should be provided. 

"We believe in increasing the powers of the pres- 
ent Railroad Commission by giving it jurisdiction 
over the other public utilities of the State. 

"My party believes in a Corrupt Practice Act. It 
was the first party to pledge the passage of such an 

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The Morrow Inaugural Parade, Frankfort, Ky. 



Edwin P. Moerow — Kentuckian 

act and calls attention to the broken promises of 
our opponents to pass such a law. Something must 
be done to limit the amount which may be bid for a 
public office. The people have the right to know 
the amount and sources of all campaign funds. Some 
check must be placed upon the man who either has 
or can secure great sums of money to be used in 
debauching elections. The man who buys his way 
into a public office will steal his way out. 

"We believe in the election of the judiciary, the 
final safeguard of life, liberty and property, without 
regard to politics, and desire to put the judge above 
and beyond political influence in order that he may 
be selected upon the ground of fitness and qualifica- 
tion alone. 

' ' We believe in the principle of the direct primary 
law. A Republican platform first declared for such 
a law. We believe the present law is unfair, unjust 
and imperfect; that it was made for the purpose of 
preventing joint nominations and of widening the 
breach between political parties and of preventing 
the great body of independent and thinking voters 
from exercising their beneficial influence in primary 
elections. 

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Edwin P. Morrow — Kentuckian 

1 ' The Republican party stands pledged to the pas- 
sage of a tax amendment to enable the legislature 
to classify property. The opposition party is respon- 
sible for the present unjust system of taxation; re- 
sponsible for every inequality and unfair burden 
which that system imposes upon you, and responsi- 
ble for the unreasonable delay in its amendment. 

"The Republican party favors the proposed tax 
amendment and, after its passage, the enactment of 
a just, fair and scientific tax law, carefully prepared 
by taxing experts, which shall provide a fair tax 
rate and a just and equitable classification that deals 
fairly with the farmer and the capitalist, with visi- 
ble and intangible wealth and brings every class of 
property to be listed for taxation. 

The Redistricting Law. 

"My friends, I want to talk to you a little while on 
a subject that is close to my heart because it is a 
wrong against my people in the land where I was 
born and where I live. We all believe in equality, the 
great bed rock principle of the Republic. We find 
that today by law one-sixth of our fellow citizens are 
denied equality of representation, their most preci- 

74 



Edwin P. Morrow — Kentuckian 

ous right and heritage. The Constitution of Ken- 
tucky, Section 33, provides: 

" 'The first General Assembly, after the adoption 
of this Constitution, shall divide the State into thirty- 
eight Senatorial Districts, and one hundred Repre- 
sentative Districts, as nearly equal in population as 
may be, without dividing any county, except where 
a county may include more than one district, which 
districts shall constitute the Senatorial and Repre- 
sentative Districts for ten years. Not more than two 
counties shall be joined together to form a repre- 
sentative district; provided, in doing so, the princi- 
ple requiring every district to be as nearly equal in 
population as may be shall not be violated.' 

1 ' In the face of this clear cut and fundamental law, 
the legislature of Kentucky in 1893, passed a bill 
creating Legislative and Senatorial Districts, and 
passed it in such a way that three hundred and fifty 
thousand citizens of Kentucky were absolutely dis- 
franchised and given no representation in their leg- 
islature. In 1900 a new census was taken, so that it 
became the duty of the legislature to pass a new 
districting act. The wrong was not righted. In 
1896, a new redisricting act was passed that only in- 

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Edwin P. Moebow — Kentuckian 

creased and made the wrong more outrageous. In 
1907, a Democratic Court of Appeals was called upon 
to decide whether this redisricting law was fair and 
just. The Court of Appeals, in passing on this sub- 
ject, made use of the following unusually strong 
language : 

" 'The act under discussion is grossly violative of 
Section 33 of the Constitution, in that the injunction 
as to equality between the districts was not even pre- 
tended to be obeyed by the legislature, and is not 
and cannot be denied. 

" 'Inequality of representation is a tyranny to 
which no people worthy of freedom will tamely sub- 
mit. To say that a man in Spencer County shall 
have seven times as much influence in the govern- 
ment of the State as a man in Ohio, Butler or Ed- 
monson, is to say that six men out of every seven in 
those counties are not represented in the government 
at all. 

11 ' No citizen will or ought to love the State which 
oppresses him; and that citizen is arbitrarily op- 
pressed who is denied equality of representation 
with every other citizen of the Commonwealth. ' 

"In defiance of this opinion of Kentucky's 
Supreme Court, in wilful and wanton violation of 

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Edwin P. Morkow — Kentuckian 

the Constitution, the Kentucky legislatures of 1908- 
1910-1912 and 1914 have knowingly and wilfully and 
corruptly refused to comply with the Constitution 
of Kentucky and the mandate of the State's highest 
court. The Senatorial District in which I live is 
composed of eight big counties, with a population of 
more than a hundred and seventy thousand and an 
area of more than thirty-five hundred square miles. 
We have one member of the Senate. The Twenty- 
third Senatorial District composed of the three small 
counties of Boone, Owen and Gallatin, with a pop- 
ulation of about thirty thousand, and an area of 
seven hundred and forty-eight miles, has also one 
Senator. One man in that district has as much rep- 
resentation as six men in my district. The compari- 
son of the Thirty-third and Thirtieth Senatorial 
Districts is just as bad. 

"Many of the Legislative Districts are worse — 
the representation being at the ratio of eight to one. 
As a net result, there are four hundred thousand citi- 
zens of Kentucky who are today disfranchised and 
deprived of equal representation. In the name of jus- 
tice, in the sacred name of equality, in the name of 
the social compact which binds us together as one 

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Edwin P. Morrow — Kentuckian 

people, in the name of the blood of common ancestors 
spilled in the pioneer days when Kentucky was cut 
from the wilderness, in the name of the heroes dead on 
the battlefield of freedom, in the name of the brother- 
hood of man which inspires every man to love and re- 
spect the rights of his neighbor, I appeal to you to 
right this monstrous wrong. You can only do this by 
voting for the Republican party which will give to 
every man, woman and child in all Kentucky, fair, 
equal and just representation." 



Address of Edwin P. Morrow, 

Republican Candidate for Governor of Kentucky, 
Pikeville, Ky., Sept. 8, 1919. 

"Again the time is at hand when Kentucky must 
choose its public servants. This is, and should be, 
the hour of accounting — when the people should take 
stock of their business, check and balance ; when they 
should reward and indorse the faithful, efficient serv- 
ant who has given them the benefit of good govern- 
ment; when they should rebuke and condemn their 
unworthy, unfaithful servants who have brought 
upon them the ills of bad government. 

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Edwin P. Morrow — Kentuckian 

act and calls attention to the broken promises of 
our opponents to pass such a law. Something must 
be done to limit the amount which may be bid for a 
public office. The people have the right to know 
the amount and sources of all campaign funds. Some 
check must be placed upon the man who either has 
or can secure great sums of money to be used in 
debauching elections. The man who buys his way 
into a public office will steal his way out. 

"We believe in the election of the judiciary, the 
final safeguard of life, liberty and property, without 
regard to politics, and desire to put the judge above 
and beyond political influence in order that he may 
be selected upon the ground of fitness and qualifica- 
tion alone. 

' ' We believe in the principle of the direct primary 
law. A Republican platform first declared for such 
a law. We believe the present law is unfair, unjust 
and imperfect; that it was made for the purpose of 
preventing joint nominations and of widening the 
breach between political parties and of preventing 
the great body of independent and thinking voters 
from exercising their beneficial influence in primary 
elections. 

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Edwin P. Morrow — Kentuckian 

people, in the name of the blood of common ancestors 
spilled in the pioneer days when Kentucky was cut 
from the wilderness, in the name of the heroes dead on 
the battlefield of freedom, in the name of the brother- 
hood of man which inspires every man to love and re- 
spect the rights of his neighbor, I appeal to you to 
right this monstrous wrong. You can only do this by 
voting for the Republican party which will give to 
every man, woman and child in all Kentucky, fair, 
equal and just representation." 



Address of Edwin P. Morrow, 

Republican Candidate for Governor of Kentucky, 
Pikeville, Ky., Sept. 8, 1919. 

''Again the time is at hand when Kentucky must 
choose its public servants. This is, and should be, 
the hour of accounting — when the people should take 
stock of their business, check and balance ; when they 
should reward and indorse the faithful, efficient serv- 
ant who has given them the benefit of good govern- 
ment; when they should rebuke and condemn their 
unworthy, unfaithful servants who have brought 
upon them the ills of bad government. 

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Edwin P. Morrow — Kentuchian 

"The ballot is the great weapon of the people. By 
its fearless and intelligent use alone can they de- 
fend themselves, protect their interests and demon- 
strate their powers to reward and punish. By the 
proper use of the ballot alone can a people establish 
the standard government by which they propose to 
be served. An electorate which will not condemn its 
betrayers and destroy its despoilers has no right to 
complain of the shipwreck of its affairs, nor to cry 
aloud over its ills and burdens. 

1 ' Four years ago, in a campaign which stirred the 
State to its depth, betrayal of public trust was made 
manifest; the wretched condition of the State's busi- 
ness was made known; drains and leaks and thefts 
from the public treasury were disclosed; broken 
covenants were laid bare, and the marks of the 
strangling death grip of the old political order was 
shown upon the fair throat of the State. In that 
campaign the people were urged to rebuke their be- 
trayers; to condemn those who despoiled them and, 
by a verdict of 'guilty' at the polls, to establish a 
higher standard of political faith, government and 
service. . . . 

"Four years have come and gone under the pres- 
ent administration which has had full, complete and 

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Edwin P. Morrow — Kentuckian 

absolute control of every department of State. What 
today are the known and admitted facts? What to- 
day is the verdict already made in the heart of the 
people? What does your stock-taking show? No 
economy, no saving, but increased expenditures in 
every department of State; no beheading of useless 
officers; no stop to the drains and leaks; no lessen- 
ing of tax burdens, but everywhere increased taxes 
and assessments; no demonstration of business capac- 
ity, but a policy of utter carelessness, resulting in 
the loss of millions of dollars, and a wastefulness 
which has robbed the people of thousands. . . . 
''Yet on the fourth day of September, at Louis- 
ville, the present Democratic candidates for State 
office in a convention which they dominated, attempt- 
ed, by a web of words, to hide from the people the 
real issues of this campaign and the acts and deeds 
of the present administration which have for months 
been condemned by all right thinking men. These 
candidates for high office who now seek your sup- 
port had neither the courage to openly indorse, nor 
the courage to denounce the present administration, 
but thought to at once placate the then officehold- 
ers and deceive the people by a meaningless blanket 

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Edwin P. Morrow — Kentuckian 

indorsement of the legislative acts of the Stanley 
administration. 

Acts Produced Wide Disfavor. 

"This ignoble surrender and patent subterfuge is 
contained in section 4 of their platform. When care- 
fully read it only endorses certain legislative acts, 
only the passage of laws urged four years ago by 
both parties — passed by both parties, and concerning 
which there was never any serious difference. Upon 
the administrative acts and omissions of the pres- 
ent administration which have produced the widest 
and most universal condemnation, and which have 
shocked the intelligence and conscience of the Com- 
monwealth, these candidates are as silent as the tomb. 

"But their silence thunders to the people their lack 
of courage, and tells the pitiful story of their abject 
surrender to the Stanley office holding powers. Those 
who have not the courage to denounce will never have 
the courage to right a wrong. I propose to do that 
which they would not do, to say that which they 
would not say, to speak for a splendid people for 
whom they would not raise their voices. In the name 
of the people of Kentucky, I denounce the Stanley 
administration and those who have fattened upon it. 



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Republican Pledges. 

"The Republican party presents to the people of 
Kentucky a plain, progressive platform, embodying 
a complete system of needed and constructive legis- 
lation. I heartily and fully endorse this platform — 
to me it is my word given to the people — and I 
solemnly pledge to its fulfillment, in letter and in 
spirit, the best efforts of my heart and mind. 

"As the first step for any lasting progress or de- 
velopment the State's finances must be put upon 
a safe, sound and business basis. We must realize 
our indebtedness and prepare to meet it. For this 
purpose my party is pledged to the strictest economy, 
to the abolishment of every superfluous office, and to 
retrenchment and economy in every department of 
State. 

Will Discard Old System. 

"The old hit-or-miss system of expenditures must 
be discarded and the budget system fully and cor- 
rectly installed and rigidly followed. To operate the 
various departments of State, to maintain law and 
order, to build roads and further the cause of educa- 
tion, revenue is necessary and must be provided. The 

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Republican party charges that every tax burden 
which now galls the back of the people has been pro- 
duced by needless waste and reckless extravagance, 
and it believes that with proper economy many of 
these ills will permanently disappear. 

"My party believes that taxation should be just, 
fair and equitable upon every class and kind of prop- 
erty, and that every citizen should cheerfully and 
honestly bear his full and fair share of taxation. It 
is pledged to so revise and correct the present tax 
law as to secure these results. It is opposed to the 
use of arbitrary power, and condemns the present 
State Tax Commission for the arbitrary methods em- 
ployed in administering the present tax law. 

"It is pledged to a thorough and exhaustive inves- 
tigation into the manner in which this law has been 
administered, and to correct such abuses as have 
been the cause of just complaint. It is further 
pledged, while preserving the principle of the classi- 
fication of property, to limit within reasonable bounds 
the arbitrary powers of the State Tax Board to in- 
crease assessments made by county boards, and to 
provide a summary and speedy method of appeal to 
the Court of Appeals from such arbitrary increases. 

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"Under the present high assessments, with strict 
economy enforced, the present tax rate can and should 
be materially reduced, and to this end every effort 
should be put forth to bring all of the State's prop- 
erty to assessment and taxation. 

Will Improve Teachers' Pay. 

' ' The general condition of the common schools and 
school system, the method of supplying the Depart- 
ment of Education with revenue, and the wretched 
pay now given common school teachers, are deplored 
by every thoughtful citizen. To correct these condi- 
tions, my party is pledged to recommend and estab- 
lish a comprehensive survey of the entire school sys- 
tem for the purpose of giving a wise basis for solely 
needed school legislation. We condemn the opposition 
for its years of failure to use its powers in this re- 
gard and to correct present and long existing evils. 
Something must be done and done at once to provide 
proper pay for common school teachers. 

"The wages paid them today shames the State. The 
schools of the State are of vastly more importance 
than all of its politics and politicians. Every vestige 
of partisanship should be eradicated from their con- 

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trol and legislation should be immediately passed 
which will prevent the election of State and county 
superintendents under partisan emblems; which will 
make their fitness, not their political affiliation, the 
determining factor in their selection. In schools and 
colleges, Kentucky is entitled to as good as the best. 
Let us see that she has them. 

NON-P ARTISAN JUDICIARY. 

"The stain of politics too often besmirches the 
ermine of the judge. My party cheerfully takes ad- 
vanced ground in demanding that all judicial officers 
be elected on a non-partisan plan, without party em- 
blem or designation. Fitness and qualification alone 
should determine their selection. 

Industrial and Agricultural Development. 

"Bountifully blest by nature, favorably situated 
geographically, Kentucky should long ago have taken 
gigantic strides in industrial and agricultural develop- 
ment. To stimulate such development, my party 
stands for good roads, for every assistance to this 
movement, for substantial aid to and extension of the 
Agricultural Department and its various activities, 
for increased aid to the State University, especially 

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the agricultural and mechanical departments and 
from extension work. 

Development of State Resources. 

"We believe that every aid of the State should be 
given to further the full development of our great 
undeveloped resources, including coal and oil. We 
deplore the manner in which the development of the 
oil industry of the State has been hampered, hindered 
and bewildered by unfortunate and misleading legis- 
lation and taxing methods which have resulted in 
unjust and unfair assessment and unreasonable tax 
burdens upon oil leases and oil bearing property. We 
favor the enactment of laws providing for a produc- 
tion tax which shall be in lieu of all other taxes upon 
oil properties. 

Woman Suffrage and Prohibition. 

"The Republican party is in favor of and stands 
for the passage of the suffrage and prohibition amend- 
ments to the Federal and State Constitutions, and 
pledges itself to support, maintain and enforce these 
amendments by all necessary legislation. I bind my- 
self to uphold and fulfill these pledges.* 



* Governor Morrow openly championed Woman's Suf- 
frage during the 1915 campaign against both Republican 
and Democratic party influence. 

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Labor. 

''The Republican party is today and always has 
been the friend of American labor, and it stands 
ready now to promote in every way possible its wel- 
fare. ... I stand for the creation of a separate 
department of labor, for due representation of labor 
upon the Workmen's Compensation Board; for such 
legislation as will prevent child labor and will pro- 
duce throughout the entire fields of industry better 
working places and working conditions. 

Public Service. 

"My friends, I believe in public service. I believe 
that an office is a public trust. What we need in 
Kentucky is less politics and more business, fewer 
promises and more performances, more red pepper 
and less red tape, more saving in the collection of rev- 
enue and less extravagance in its expenditure. Above 
all else, and for the greatest good of the State, we 
must destroy the political system which has almost 
destroyed Kentucky. This system is based and rooted 
in trade and barter and finds its unvarying expres- 
sion in the payment of private political obligations 
with the gift of public office. 

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Will Not Make Office Pledges. 

"Positions are pledged in advance in the heat of 
campaigns and filled, not because of training, capacity 
and fitness, but in consideration of the delivery of 
political influence. This system has filled the state 
house with useless commissions, clerks and officers; 
destroyed efficiency, and turned the Capitol into a 
clearing house for the trade and barter and settle- 
ment of political debts. 

"I made my own race for my own nomination. It 
was given me, without opposition, by the universal 
will of my party. I was not the candidate of any 
man nor of any set of men, nor of any business nor 
any interest. I have made no pledges, no promises, 
nor have any been made for me. I had rather be de- 
feated in honor than to secure the purple knowing 
that it will cover and hide a corrupt trade and bar- 
gain. 

"To secure my election to the exalted position to 
which I honorably aspire, I shall not pledge a single 
office nor make a single trade. When this great trust 
comes to me my hands shall be free to take it; my 
mind not bound by bargains; and, under God, my 
heart and conscience free to strive alone for the best 

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interests of my State if, in your wisdom, you see fit 
to elect me Governor of the Commonwealth. 

' ' I WILL — enforce rigid economy in the collection 
and expenditure of the public funds ; stop the leaks ; 
abolish every useless office and compel retrenchment 
in every department of State. 

"I WILL — take the black hand of politics from 
the throat of the State's charitable and penal insti- 
tutions, and name a board for their control to be com- 
posed of men and women of such well known char- 
acter and fitness that all will know that under such 
a board the evil of political domination will disappear 
forever, and that these institutions will be so operated 
as to reflect the real heart and soul and conscience of 
Kentucky. 

"I WILL — appoint a State tax commission, with- 
out regard to politics, to be composed of men of such 
ability and fitness as will fairly, justly and equitably 
discharge their duties. If they do not do so, I will 
demand their resignation and tell the State why. 

"I WILL — appoint a text book commission, com- 
posed of capable trained men from both par- 
ties, and demand that its hearings be public. I 
will protect the school children of the State and for 

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their benefit will demand the passage of laws to take 
the departments of education in State and county 
out of politics. 

"I WILL — seek always and everywhere to pro- 
mote real service, real progress and a full return in 
benefits for every dollar expended. 

"I WILL— face the fact of the State's overwhelm- 
ing debt, and by economy and a business adminis- 
tration of fiscal affairs seek to pay it without adding 
additional burdens to a sorely taxed people. 

"I WILL NOT — for political reasons appoint to 
office any unworthy or unqualified man, nor will I 
knowingly permit such an appointment by any pub- 
lic officer. 

"I WILL NOT— employ special attorneys at State 
expense, nor will I permit the settlement by com- 
promise of State claims, but will compel their ad- 
judication in the courts of law. 

"I WILL NOT — abuse or misuse the pardoning 
power, nor will I pardon any guilty man, nor will 
I use this great power for political ends. 

"I WILL NOT — barter or use my patronage to 
entrench my party or myself in power, but will seek 

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alone the confidence of a people to be merited by a 
faithful, conscientious discharge of public trust. 

"I WILL NOT— while Governor of Kentucky seek 
a nomination for any other office, nor will I become a 
candidate for any other public office. 

' ' I WILL NOT — deny to the people participation 
m their affairs, but by the widest publicity I will 
seek their advice, their confidence, and the expression 
of their will. 

"Upon the issues as made I propose to wage my 
campaign. I love my State. Every fibre of my be- 
ing thrills at the mention of her name. Every good 
impulse of my soul is dedicated to her service. I 
believe in her possibilities and her future. If love 
and hope, if energy and enthusiasm will prevail, I 
promise, with the assistance of the young and ag- 
gressive men composing our State ticket, to bring a 
new and a better day to Kentucky. The issue is in 
your hands. Come what may, I am sustained by the 
consciousness that in every word I have uttered I 
speak for the good of Kentucky and the welfare of 
its people." 



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CHAPTER VIII. 

Official Addresses and Proclamations. 



Inaugural Address of Governor Edwin P. Morrow, 

Frankfort, Ky., Dec. 9, 1919. 
"My Dear Friends and Fellow Citizens: — 

"In this hour I am at once the proudest and 
humblest of men. Proud, beyond all words, of the 
confidence of the people of my State and the loyalty 
of my friends; humble in the consciousness of great 
responsibility in the presence of supreme duty. AH 
the thrill that comes with victory is gone — lost in 
the compelling sense of obligation and in the full 
realization of the vital importance of the task that 
awaits me and in the apprehension of the difficulties 
of this great undertaking. 

1 i The passion, bitterness and strife of the late cam- 
paign are over — forgotten and forgiven alike by all. 
We are no longer divided. We can now behold, with 
a vision undimmed by partisanship and unclouded by 
prejudice, the real meaning of the people's will as 
registered under law. The unprecedented vote given 

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the successful candidates for State offices means more 
than a choice between men. It thunders forth the 
people's 'ballot of rebuke' to unfaithful servants 
and inefficient execution of public trust. It proclaims 
in unmistakable terms their approval of certain pro- 
posed and pledged constructive and progressive leg- 
islation. 

"The platform of a political party is its solemn 
offer to contract with the people. When that offer 
is accepted by the suffrage of the people a covenant 
is made — a covenant sounding in honor and sealed 
with the great seal of the Commonwealth. My party 
has made such a contract with the people of Ken- 
tucky. As its candidate for the exalted position to 
which you have elected me I acted as its agent in the 
making of this compact. As your Governor I am 
your trustee, impressed with the obligation of ful- 
•filling its conditions. I admit, with grateful and 
overflowing heart, the consideration upon which it 
is founded — the expressed confidence of a splendid 
people. In this presence, surrounded by those I love 
and those who love me, I reaffirm the provisions and 
pledges contained in my party's binding obligation. 
To its fulfillment in letter and in spirit I pledge 

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every effort, every energy and the best of every 
power of head and heart which God has given me. 
In the performance of this contract now made with 
all the people, for the good of all the people, I ask 
the aid of all the people. 

"It is the duty of the Chief Executive to enforce 
without fear or favor and to maintain at all times the 
unchallenged supremacy of law and to assist in the 
passage of new laws to meet the ever-growing de- 
mands of a progressive Commonwealth. Law is the 
foundation stone — the living rock upon which rest 
the pillars of the Commonwealth — it is the shield 
and sword of the people, the sentinel at every home, 
the watchman of every fireside. It is, at last, the 
final guarantee of 'life, liberty and the pursuit of 
happiness. ' 

"It is the further duty of the Chief Executive to 
assist in the development of the State's natural re- 
sources ; to see to the physical, mental and moral wel- 
fare of the people; to support and promote every 
agency of public education and to protect the in- 
tegrity of our public institutions. 

"I am about to enter upon the discharge of the 
arduous duties of my office. In my weakness I appeal 

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for strength to the one great source of strength, and 
humbly pray that the God who makes and unmakes 
nations and who holds His children in the hollow 
of His hand will give me vision to see and strength 
to do the right ; that He will keep my feet in the paths 
of duty and sustain me in the administration of law 
and justice, ail to the end that I may maintain the 
honor of the State and promote the welfare of its 
people. 

"I am now ready, Mr. Chief Justice, to take the 
oath of office." 



Biennial Message of Governor Edwin P. Morrow, 

Delivered in Person to the 

General Assembly of Kentucky, 

Frankfort, Ky., Jan. 6, 1920. 

"Gentlemen of the Senate and House of Representa- 
tives : 

"In an hour of need the people of Kentucky have 
selected you as their representatives in the General 
Assembly. By your own seeking you are here to 
stand for, act for and serve a splendid people. Prob- 
lems of the highest importance, matters and policies 
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of most vital concern to the good of Kentucky and 
the welfare of its people, confront you. In the per- 
formance of the duties that await you, I am confident 
you will act with wisdom, discretion and patriotism 
and with a profound consciousness of great respon- 
sibility. 

"Almost in equal numbers you are members of the 
two dominant political parties. In the campaign 
which resulted in your election, both parties made 
certain definite promises and pledges, and in solemn 
platform declarations announced their positions con- 
cerning proposed constructive and progressive legis- 
lation. It is my purpose in this message to call your 
attention alone to those matters, policies and reforms 
to which you stand committed by your party's solemn 
covenant; which have been demanded and approved 
with unexampled emphasis and certainty by the 
sovereign will of the people expressed at the polls. 

* ' The passion, bitterness and strife of the late cam- 
paign are over — forgotten and forgiven alike by all. 
We are no longer divided. There is, and should be, 
no occasion for injecting into your deliberations any 
measure of a purely political character. If partisan- 
ship must divide us, if political alignments must 

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hinder and obstruct the due course of much needed 
constructive and progressive legislation, I intend to 
see to it that the responsibility therefor shall be fixed, 
known and certain and shall be assumed by those 
who think more of their party than they do of their 
State. There will not and shall not be introduced 
with my consent or approval any measure seeking a 
political advantage for my party, or which has its 
entrenchment in power as its purpose. There is 
little difference between a policy of party aggression 
and of party obstruction, because in both, the ideal 
of service to the people is lost and forgotten. In this 
spirit I recommend that you proceed without delay 
and complete, as soon as it may be well and wisely 
done, legislation providing for: 

1. The abolition of every useless office, the im- 
mediate dismissal of every useless official and the 
consolidation, wherever possible, of boards and com- 
missions. 

2. The repeal of the law now providing for the 
control of our charitable and penal institutions, and 
the passage in its stead of a comprehensive law which 
shall properly provide for their operation under a 
system which shall increase efficiency in their man- 

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agement and forever divorce them from the evils of 
political control. 

3. The enactment of legislation sorely needed for 
the benefit of the State's public schools and institu- 
tions of higher learning. 

4. The removal of the judiciary from politics 
and the selection and retention of judicial officers 
under a non-partisan plan. 

5. The ratification of the Federal amendment 
granting equal suffrage to women and their enfran- 
chisement in State and nation. 

6. The enforcement of nation and State wide 
prohibition. 

7. The repeal or amendment of the present com- 
pulsory primary election law. 

8. The dimissal from office of any officer 
charged with the duty of protecting prisoners who 
may surrender them to mobs. 

9. The development of our agricultural and 
natural resources, including the stimulation and pro- 
tection of our oil and gas industries. 

10. The creation of a more efficient and compre- 
hensive department of labor. 

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11. The construction and maintenance of a 
permanent system of State highways and extension 
of the good roads movement into every county of 
Kentucky. 

12. The correction and revision of the present 
tax law so as to make assessments of every class of 
property just and equitable and to limit, within rea- 
sonable bounds, the arbitrary power of the State Tax 
Commission to increase assessments made by local 
boards. . . . 

"The State of Kentucky is spending annually 
more than $8,000,000. This expenditure should be 
checked, not only by an accounting audit, but there 
should be established a continuous audit of operating 
results. . . . 

Schools and Colleges. 

"The health, happiness and prosperity of our peo- 
ple, the use and development of our natural resources, 
the preservation of our liberties, the perpetuity of 
our institutions are dependent upon and determined 
by the diffusion of the right knowledge and by our 
attitude towards schools. The gravity of the times 
through which we are passing gives new emphasis to 
the importance of education and imposes new obli- 

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gations upon our schools. It is not too much to say 
that, in this hour of crisis, our schools are, in almost 
literal truth, our Ark of Covenant in which reposes 
democracy's hope. A vigorous Americanism, that 
values citizenship in our republic, that appreciates 
our institutions and ideals, that cherishes no other 
soul loyalty, that thinks and acts in terms of no class 
but of all the people, constitutes our chief bulwark 
against the spirit of unrest and anarchy at work 
among us. Our schools must foster this as their first 
duty and universal education must accompany uni- 
versal suffrage. The duties of citizenship must be 
stressed no less than its rights. 

Rural Education. 
''The deplorable condition of our rural schools 
compels your immediate attention. Eighty per cent of 
our children live in rural districts and for that rea- 
son the problem of education becomes a problem of 
rural conditions. Kentucky has neglected her country 
children. In many parts of the country, schools are 
taught in archaic buildings, buildings without proper 
equipment and often without suitable playgrounds. 
Rural teachers are so poorly paid that many counties 
have been unable to procure the required number of 
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teachers for their schools during the present 
school year. While the law fixes the mini- 
nuini salary at $45.00, the salaries paid to 
teachers in rural schools range from $35.00 to $70.00 
per month, or from $210.00 to $420.00 per year. The 
inevitable consequence of failure to pay a living wage 
has been to drive from the profession its best ma- 
terial and already fewer young men and women are 
choosing teaching as a profession. State and county 
administration of public schools is subject to the un- 
certainties and baleful influence of politics. Local 
support by local taxation in the various counties is 
uncertain, or lacking altogether, and school sentiment 
in many of them is fast disappearing. It is no ex- 
aggeration to say that we are facing a crisis in rural 
education. Immediate relief must be furnished, or 
the doors of these schools, poor as they are, will be 
closed to the children of the State and the general 
cause of rural education seriously hampered and re- 
tarded. 

Recommendations. 

' ' Your wisdom and patriotism will meet this situa- 
tion in a way worthy of Kentucky. A survey com- 
mission composed of trained educational experts 
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should be provided in order that we may know just 
where the trouble lies and the way to remedy it. The 
State Superintendent of Public Instruction and coun- 
ty school superintendents should be elected upon a 
non-partisan plan and their offices entirely removed 
from political influence. A constitutional provision 
should be submitted for the purpose of making the 
State Superintendent a statutory, rather than con- 
stitutional officer, and it may be the part of wisdom 
to provide that both State and county superintend- 
ents should be appointed rather than elected. The 
pay of the rural school teachers should be substantial- 
ly increased and such a minimum salary provided as 
will secure trained and competent teachers, and capa- 
ble administrative county superintendents. To this 
end there should be enacted a law fixing such a mini- 
mum levy in each county for school purposes as will 
provide increased pay for those in charge of rural 
schools and the proper maintenance and equipment 
of such schools. In this matter generosity is economy 
— saving, extravagance. Education is an investment,, 
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Non-Partisan Judiciary. 
"The stain of politics too often besmirches the 
ermine of the judge. Political power and influence 
too often corrupt the very fountain head of justice. 
The bench must be placed above and beyond the power 
of partisan politics. To the end, that law shall be 
upheld, respected, obeyed and administered without 
fear or favor, appellate and circuit court judges 
should be elected under a non-partisan plan, without 
party emblem or designation. Fitness and qualifica- 
tion alone should determine their selection. The 
man who opposes the removal of the judiciary from 
the slough of politics is not actuated by a conscienti- 
ous desire for the administration of justice but is 
prompted alone by his own selfish aims and mean 
ambition. 

Woman Suffrage. 

"A government 'of the people, by the people' 
cannot and does not exist in a Commonwealth in 
which one-half of its citizens are denied the right 
of Suffrage. The women of Kentucky are citizens 
of Kentucky, and there is no good or just reason why 
they should be refused the full and equal exercise of 
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the sovereign right of every free people — the ballot. 
Every member of this General Assembly is unequiv- 
ocally committed by his party's platform declaration, 
to cast his vote, and use his influence for the immedi- 
ate enfranchisement of women in both nation and 
State. Party loyalty — faithkeeping with the people, 
and our long boasted chivalry — all demand that the 
General Assembly of Kentucky shall break all previ- 
ous speed records in ratifying the Federal Suffrage 
Amendment, and passing all measures granting po- 
litical rights to women. . . . 

Mob Violence. 

"The people of Kentucky are opposed to mobs and 
mob violence, and do not desire to be served by a 
cowardly public officer who surrenders a prisoner at 
the demand of those who, crying out in the name of 
the law, disgrace and destroy law. A statute, in 
compliance with the constitutional amendment just 
adopted, should be passed providing for the auto- 
matic removal of any peace officer or jailer who sur- 
renders a prisoner at the unlawful demand of the 
mob. 

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Agricultural and Industrlvl Developments. 

"Bountifully blessed by nature, favorably located 
geographically, Kentucky should, long ago, have taken 
gigantic strides in industrial and agricultural de- 
velopments. To stimulate such development, sub- 
stantial aid should be given for the purpose of ex- 
tending the work of the State Agricultural Depart- 
ment in carrying on and enlarging the scope of its 
various activities. 

"The work of the State University, particularly 
the departments of mining, engineering and agricul- 
ture, should be enlarged and extended and modern 
equipment provided. The oil and gas industry is 
rapidly assuming commanding proportions and with 
proper encouragement and protecting legislation this 
industry should soon be a source of great wealth to 
the people of the State. It is highly important that 
both foreign and domestic capital shall be used in 
the discovery and operation of the various oil-bearing 
properties, and that such property shall be pre- 
served by the enactment of proper laws regulating 
drilling, etc. This industry should be stimulated and 
encouraged, not hindered and hampered. A produc- 
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tion tax on oil, gas and royalties should be provided 
in lieu of all taxes when actual development has been 

secured. 

Labor. 

"The rapid industrial development of Kentucky 
requires that you look with particular care to the 
passage of laws, having in view the welfare of labor ; 
the securing of better working conditions and steady 
employment of the wage earner. To this end a sep- 
arate department of labor should be created and given 
power to promote the employment of labor; to see to 
working conditions; to enforce laws against child 
labor; to secure safer and more sanitary working 
conditions and to co-operate with employer and em- 
ployee for the good of both. 

Good Roads. 

"The people of Kentucky are entitled to and are 
demanding good roads. Good roads will produce good 
schools, good churches, better business and better 
citizens. They are the veins of the State through 
which course trade, commerce and business. Wise 
provision should be made for a constructive and for- 
ward looking program contemplating the erection and 

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maintenance of a permanent system of highways into 
and through every county in Kentucky. Such a sys- 
tem should be devised as to take advantage of the 
opportunity now offered by the Federal aid plan, 
and in every way the good roads movement should be 
stimulated and placed upon the most modern and 
successful basis. 

Taxation. 

"The present tax law should be corrected and re- 
vised in those particulars in which its actual opera- 
tion has been shown to be unjust, unfair or unduly 
oppressive and proper legislation should be provided 
to meet and correct abuses, if any, in the manner and 
method of its administration and the power of the 
State Tax Commission to increase assessments made 
by local boards should be limited within reasonable 
bounds by provision for appeal by local boards to 
the Court of Appeals from the orders of the State 
Tax Commission requiring increased assessments. 

Public Health. 
"The Kentucky State Board of Public Health in 
the highly important and valuable work which it is 
performing should receive substantial aid in order 
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that the field of its activities shall be extended. Pre- 
ventable disease in a progressive community is due 
almost wholly to neglect. Epidemics must be fought 
and regulated; tuberculosis must not be permitted 
without opposition to extend its deadly menace. It 
is a crime, with preventable means at hand, that any 
child should lose its vision through trachoma. The 
ever-growing menace of venereal disease must be 
frankly spoken of and courageously and scientifically 
met and destroyed. 

Additional Messages. 

"I have confined this message to legislation and re- 
forms pledged by both political parties, approved by 
general public opinion and demanded by the will of 
the people expressed in the last election. In the near 
future I shall call your attention to the State 's finan- 
cial condition; to the needs, demands and conditions 
of the State's charitable and penal institutions and 
to other matters affecting the welfare and progress 
of the State. Kentucky stands at the parting of the 
ways — it must go forward or it must go backward. 
I am confident that in the discharge of your duties 
you will reflect the high character, intelligence and 

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patriotism of your constituents, and will seek to give 
Kentucky the progress, growth and development so 
earnestly desired by the right thinking men and 
women of Kentucky. 

"He loves his country most who seeks to make it 
test." 

Respectfully submitted, 

EDWIN P. MORROW, 

Governor of Kentucky. 
January 6, 1920. 



Proclamation. 

"To the People of Kentucky, Greeting: — 

' ' Our Father in Heaven has, during the past year, 
blessed us, His children, with peace within our 
borders; a bountiful yield from the soil of Mother 
Earth ; the preservation of our liberties, regulated by 
law; and the maintenance of our free public insti- 
tutions. From our forefathers, through all the drifted 
years of our national history, we have at this season 
set apart a time of thanksgiving and prayer known 
as 'Thanksgiving Day,' which comes at the end of 
the harvest time. 

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"The fruitage of spring and summer has been 
gathered to assure us against the wants and rigor of 
winter. 'Thanksgiving Day' — hallowed by the 
memory of our Pilgrim Fathers, sanctified by years 
of observation, touches every heart with the tender 
memories of home and childhood and the recollections 
of the loved and lost. It is the day the wanderer re- 
turns home; when family ties, long broken, are re- 
united ; when hungry arms are filled with loved ones. 

"Therefore, in obedience to the custom of our 
fathers, and in grateful recognition of the watchful 
kindness of our Heavenly Father, I do by the power 
vested in me, proclaim Thursday, November 25, 1920, 
as a day of thanksgiving and prayer ; and I call upon 
the people of Kentucky to suspend their daily busi- 
ness; to cease from their toil; and around the fire- 
sides of home and the altars of their land to join to- 
gether in prayers of thankfulness and gratitude to 
Him, who holds His children in the hollow of His 
hand, and who continues to bless them with His lov- 
ing kindness." 

EDWIN P. MORROW, 

Governor of Kentucky. 
Published, Friday, November 19, 1920. 
Ill 



CHAPTER IX. 

Selected Addresses and Stories. 

Although the printed page but poorly reproduces 
the real, the artistic humor of story telling, or the 
pathos and eloquence of the personal address, there 
are given herewith a few selected extracts from what 
are considered the better known unofficial speeches 
and stories of Governor Morrow. In his political 
utterances there appears time and again the figure 
of the constructive statesman and popular tribune 
of Kentucky. But in his inimitable dialogues of the 
1 'back country" one sees him at his best, a story 
telling genius from the foothills of the Cumberlands. 

Kentucky's Gifts to the Nation. 
(The Lincoln Day Speech.) 
Address Delivered by Edwin P. Morrow 
' ' There is no altar of national love or national serv- 
ice on which Kentucky has not proudly laid her 
priceless gifts of head and heart, of soul and body. 
There has been no march of progress in which she did 
not share, no field of endeavor in which she did not 

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toil, no victory which she did not help to win, no de- 
feat in which she did not suffer, and no star on the 
flag which she did not help to keep in its field of blue. 

"First begotten of the womb of the Union, first 
nursling at the ample breast of the motherland, she 
will be the last to desert or dishonor her. To tell 
the full story of Kentucky's gifts to the life and 
progress of the nation; to recount the lofty deeds 
or give the names of her distinguished sons, is im- 
possible in the brief time now allowed. We can only 
sketch the mountain peaks of her influence. 

' ' During the years of her terrible struggle for ex- 
istence, even before her entrance into the Union, her 
hardy sons and noble daughters were leading the 
vanguard in the march of the nation's progress. 
They led in that march of civilization started by 
Boone and his companions when they threw them- 
selves beyond the walls of the Appalachians and 
through the gaps of the Cumberlands, a march which 
was to lead on beyond the Missouri across the west- 
ern prairies, 'beyond the frowning barrier of the 
Rockies, down to the lapping waves of the Pacific 
where now teeming cities light their lamps by the 
setting sun 'ere it sinks to rest in ocean 's outstretch- 

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ed arms. ' Ah, pioneers of Kentucky ! Ah, wilderness 
road, crimsoned with blood, golden with romance and 
legend, your story will be told as long as history 
finds a pen, or truth a tongue. Boone ! Kenton ! Har- 
rod ! Whitley ! Logan ! Your moccasined feet have 
left forever their imprint on the highroads of civil- 
ization. 

Kentucky is Lauded. 

"It was the Kentucky pioneer — * those knights in 
buckskin' — who followed the vision-granted quest of 
George Rogers Clark, and starting from this spot, 
at the falls of the Ohio, pressed on through swamps 
and morass, through snow and ice, 'through diffi- 
culties that immortalized endurance' to the walls of 
Old Vincennes, where they took from the sky the 
flag of England and gave the priceless jewel, 'The 
Northwest,' to glitter forever in the diadem of the 
new born republic. Sons of such sires, heirs of such 
traditions, it is no wonder that the sons and daughters 
of Kentucky have, in the life and thoughts and deeds 
of the nation, taken high place and rank, and given 
noble gifts to the nation. 

"To the cause of education she gave the first 
newspaper and the first library west of the Appal- 
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achians, and was among the first states of the Union to 
imbed deep in the foundation of her government the 
American common free school. In the realm of states- 
manship we point with pride to Beck, Breckinridge, 
Letcher, Carlisle and to Clay, the great compromiser, 
who stood with loving heart and lofty brain between 
the North and South to hold back for years the cruel 
waves of fratricidal strife. In jurisprudence we point 
to Nicholas, Boyle, Robertson, and Harlan, the great 
dissenter. In oratory, we point to Marshall, Menifee, 
and Clay, of the older school, and to Bradley and 
James, of the new. In surgery, we point to Mc- 
Dowell, the father of ovariotomy, and to Brashear, 
who first amputated the thigh at the hip joint. In 
journalism we point to Penn and Prentice, and to 
the greatest Roman of them all, our own 'Marse 
Henry,' who first, and for months alone, sounded 
that stirring bugle call which was at last to swell 
into the national chorus, 'To hell with the Hohen- 
zollerns and the Hapsburgs.' 

Great Inventors. 

"In invention we point to John Fitch and James 

Rumsey, who first mastered the principles of the 

steamboat, and to Barlow, who invented the plane- 

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Edwin P. Morrow — KentucJcian 

tarium, and made a model of the first locomotive. 
In theology we point to Bascom, Waller, Rice, and 
Alexander Campbell, who in the wilderness gave to 
religion a new faith now numbering thousands of 
followers. In art we point to Jouett, who, with cun- 
ning brush, so truthfully delineated the human 
features as to almost make his canvas breathe and 
speak ; to Joel Hart, the sculptor, whose genius touch- 
ed cold and formless marble to make it blush at its 
own loveliness. In poetry we point to O'Hara, who 
wrote an immortal elegy for all heroic dead. 

The Great Song. 

"To music Kentucky gave a deathless song, one 
which blends in its heart of melody the mysteries of 
twilight and moonrise, the glory of the breaking day, 
the tenderness of a universal mother crooning soft 
and low, the light of hearthstone fires, faces of those 
adored and visions of the loved and lost, a song that, 
speaking a universal language, tugs with memories' 
hands at the heartstrings of every wanderer as he 
listens to the call of the land of his birth in the 
tender, holy, beautiful strains of 'My Old Kentucky 
Home. ' 

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Golden Burley There. 

"To luxury and dreams the Bluegrass State has 
given its leaves of golden burley whose subtle spirit 
when 'released by fire steals into the fortress of the 
brain and binds fast the sentinels of grief and care.' 

"To the sport of kings, to thrill the hearts and 
tense the muscles of thousands of breathless specta- 
tors, she has given the wild tattoo beat of the flying 
hoofs of Kentucky's thoroughbreds as they flash like 
light beneath the wire. To gladden and glorify the 
hearts of men Kentucky has given (when we had to) 
the perfect, gracious, beautiful gift — the roses out of 
Paradise — the women of Kentucky. 

The Supreme Gift. 

' ' If there had been in all Kentucky but one travail 
of birth, and that in a miserable, pitiable log cabin; 
but one crooning love song to a babe held in the hol- 
low of a mother's shoulder — and that mother, Nancy 
Hanks, and that babe, Abraham Lincoln — it alone 
would have been enough to make every foot of Ken- 
tucky soil holy, sacred ground forever. 

From Bunker Hill to Chateau Theerry. 

' ' In every struggle for our existence, in every hour 
of our country's supreme peril, from Bunker Hill to 
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Chateau Thierry, Kentucky has kept step and heart- 
beat with the nation. In the Revolution the long 
rifles of the Kentuckians helped to circle King's 
Mountain with a ring of fire. In 1812 they died at 
the 'melancholy Raisin,' and under gallant Richard 
Johnson they found revenge at the battle of the 
Thames. 

"At New Orleans they stood by the side of 'Old 
Hickory' and with unerring aim shot the redcoats, 
where their white belts crossed above their hearts, 
until they broke and fled. On the lakes they furnish- 
ed to victorious Perry more than one-fourth of his 
command. It is almost unbelievable, but true, that in 
the total casualties of this war Kentucky suffered 
more than one-third. In Mexico they sanctified with 
their blood the fields of Cerro Gordo, Chapultepec, 
and sanguinary Buena Vista, where fell McKee, 
young Harry Clay, and gallant Vaughn. In the great 
Civil War Kentucky furnished the commanders-in- 
chief of both armies — Lincoln and Davis — and to the 
two contending hosts she gave more soldiers than the 
total of her voters. Like plumed knights to lead the 
hosts of battle she gave Morgan and Wolf ord, Breck- 
inridge and Rousseau, Kelly and Hanson, Duke and 

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Adams, and at the close she was the first State in 
the Union, by legislative enactment, to take back 
to her war-scarred breast her children — no matter 
whether they wore the gray or the blue. 

' ' In the greatest, and we pray God it may be the 
last struggle for freedom, Kentucky, with a single 
loyalty, met every demand, filled every quota and 
oversubscribed her share of every Liberty Loan. 
Thank God, the old State gladly, proudly made the 
great sacrifice — flesh of her flesh, bone of her bone 
and core of her heart's desire, she sent her sons to 
meet like knights of old the great adventure. From 
the waters of the Cumberland she sent Howard 
Kinney to die like an eagle above the clouds for free- 
dom; from the Bluegrass, lovable Reuben Hutch- 
craft to fill a hero's grave; from the proud city of 
Louisville, worthy followers of her old legion; and 
to the roll of the heroic dead she gave Humphries, 
noble hearted Charlie Gardner, gallant Humler and 
many another to find a grave in the land of Lafayette. 

" 'On Fame's eternal camping ground 
Their silent tents are spread, 
And glory guards with solemn round 
The bivouac of the dead.' 



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1 ' Tonight, thrilled with the memory of our glorious 
traditions and the recollections of our deathless 
dead; in this hour consecrated by the memory of 
Abraham Lincoln, let us solemnly rededicate our- 
selves to the service of our State. Let us solemnly 
determine that with the help of God the future of 
Kentucky shall be worthy of her past. Let us highly 
resolve that our country shall have our full devotion 
and the best service of our hearts and hands. In this 
spirit we send our greetings and divide our hearts 
with the sister states of the Republic. And for the 
welfare of all we devoutly pray: 

"'Lord of the universe! shield us and guide us, 

Trusting thee always, through shadow and sun! 
Thou hast united us, who shall divide us? 

Keep us, oh, keep us, the many in one! 
Uip with our banner bright, 
Sprinkled with starry light; 

Spread its fair emblem from mountain to shore; 
While through the sounding sky, 
Loud rings the nation's cry — 

Union and Liberty — one evermore!'" 

Louisville, Ky. Feb. 12, 1919. 



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Edwin P. Mokeow — Kentuckian 
Some of Morrow's Best Short Stories. 



The Old Judge's Charge. 

An old mountain circuit judge, who was a per- 
petual candidate for re-election, always made the oc- 
casion of instructing the grand jury an opportunity 
to please a court day audience which heard him. He 
always instructed in a narrative form, giving names, 
localities, and local color. 

On one occasion, after having discussed at length 
such crimes as murder, shooting and wounding, 
burgalary, etc., he said: "Gentlemen of the jury, a 
most hainous offense has been called to the attention 
of this court. You all know the Caney Fork Meetin' 
House and the godly men and women who assemble 
thar for worship. 

"Now gentlemen, the deacons and elders of that 
church in the goodness of their hearts, beholdin' the 
barrenness of the meetin' house yard, went down to 
the banks of South Fork and with great care selected 
eight or ten of the finest water maples growin' there- 
on, and they brung them back and planted them in 
the meetin' house yard, expectin' them to grow and 
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flourish; and they was agrowin' and adoin' fine, but 
gentlemen, behold the perversity of mankind, from 
way over to Thunderstruck, there rode in four or 
five of the Buck and Hollister boys with cartridge 
belts around their middles, acarryin' wepins in their 
pockets and ignorin' the hitchin' post on the out- 
side, they rid their beasts into the yard and hitched 
them to the aforesaid growin' trees, and while the 
congregation was singin' sweet songs of Zion, them 
thar beasts chawed all the bark off of them thar trees 
and totily destroyed them. 

t " I say to you, gentlemen of the jury, that a man 
that would do the like of that would ride a jackass 
into the Garden of Eden and hitch him to the Tree 
of Life. Indict 'em, gentlemen, indict 'em." 



Taking Precautions. 

" Everybody expects a Kentuckian to tell a feud 
story," Governor Morrow is quoted as having said 
recently. ' ' The thing has really been much overdone, 
but the story about Lige Parsons may be worth tell- 
ing. Lige dropped into the court house to see his 
friend, the county judge. 

" 'Howdy, Lige!' greeted the judge. 

" ' Howdy, Judge!' 

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11 'What's doin' down your way, LigeV 

" 'Nothin', Judge, nothin'.' 

A few moments of silence. 

" 'T'other evenin' I was a-settin', a-readin' of 
my Bible, Judge,' spoke up Lige, 'when some shootin' 
begun. One of my gals said 'twas the Harris boys 
down by the middle pasture. Now, Judge, I didn't 
mind them Harris boys a-shootin', but I was afraid 
a stray bullet might hit a calf or one of the kids, so 
I picked up my rifle and dropped a few shots down 
that way and went back a-readin' of my Bible. Next 
mornin' I went down that way an' they was all gone 
'cept four.' " 



The Plea of Old Silas. 

"Mr. U. S. District Attorney: I war a republican 
storekeeper at the Big Spring Distillery in Russell 
County. 

"The Presidential election was at hand and the 
Democrats a workin' tooth and toenails. I rit to the 
Republican campaign charman askin' him to send 
me money and liquor with which to fight, but I got 
nothin' and thar cum in the Bertrams and thar folks 
a-scourin' the whole neighborhood for the Democrat 
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party, and I sez to mysef , sez I, this air liquor were 
made under a Republican administration and I am 
a Republican storekeeper-gauger, and the welfare of 
this air country is at stake, and I went into that air 
wairhouse and tuck therefrom ten gallons of Kain- 
tucky liquor and used it for the eternal good of the 
Grand Old Party. 

"Indite me, if you will, but I would ruther that 
my heart should feel the chill of chains, than to see 
the American Eagle whupt by a Shanghai rooster." 



The Morning Star of Glory. 

' • It was during the latter part of the Harding-Cox 
campaign of 1920 that Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, 
Jr., and I were engaged in a speech making tour of 
the Kentucky mountains. On the head of the Poor 
Fork of the Cumberland River old Judge Turner 
was acting as our guide, and his provisions in the 
way of food and lodging had been most excellent. 
Being naturally a thirsty soul, he had not failed to 
provide such other refreshments as the occasion 
seemed to demand. 

"Singular as it may seem, on the morning of the 
Rocky Ford school speech he had found occasion to 

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visit the old brown jug once too often. As our little 
cavalcade came splashing up the * creek, the Judge 
with a whoop and a holler, announced to the crowd 
gathered about the platform of the little school house 
that we had arrived. A cheer was returned, and in 
a moment we were surrounded by the throng with 
steaming mules and horses under saddle on every 
side. 

"Judge Turner, who led the way, climbed with 
evident effort on to the little platform and we fol- 
lowed. Waving his hands above his head he turned 
to the crowd which suddenly became silent as the 
grave. For fully a moment he stood speechless while 
the excitement of the occasion visibly arose within 
him. Then turning to where we stood beside him, 
he shouted almost in hysteria, 'Boys, the Morning 
Star of Glory has bust in me. You talk to them, 
Eddie.' 

"Some time later, when it was certain that Mr. 
Harding had been elected to the presidency, I re- 
ceived a telegram from Col. Roosevelt in which for 
want of a better and more expressive phrase he used 
the words of old Judge Turner." 



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CHAPTER X. 

Chronology. 

17— 

William McAfee Bradley, great-great-grandfather of 
Edwin P. Morrow, emigrated from Ireland to Vir- 
ginia. 

Isaac Bradley, great-grandfather of Edwin P. Morrow, 
came into Kentucky on the Wilderness Trail. 
Settled in Madison County. 

18— 
William Alexander Morrow, grandfather of Edwin 
P. Morrow, migrated from northern Ohio into 
northern Kentucky. 

1808 
Robert McAfee Bradley, maternal grandfather of 
Edwin P. Morrow, born in Garrard County, Ken- 
tucky, M arch 27. 

1847 
William O'Connell Bradley, thirty-second Governor 
of Kentucky, and uncle of Edwin P. Morrow, 
born in Lancaster, Kentucky, March 18. 
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Edwin P. Morrow — KentucJcian 

1877 
Edwin Porch Morrow and Charles Haskell Morrow, 
twins, born in Somerset, Kentucky, November 30. 
1883 
Judge Thomas Z. Morrow, father of Edwin P. Mor- 
row, defeated for Governor of Kentucky by James 
Proctor Knott. 

1891 
Edwin P. Morrow entered St. Mary's College, a gen- 
eral preparatory school at Lebanon, Kentucky. 
1893 
Entered Cumberland College, Williamsburg, Ky., 
and studied collegiate courses in literature, lan- 
guages and public speaking. Became a member of 
the Cumberland College Debating Society. 
1895 
Stumped the State for his uncle, William 0. Bradley, 
Republican candidate for Governor of Kentucky. 
1898 
Enlisted as a private in the U. S. volunteer army for 
the Spanish-American War, June 24. 
1899 
Was mustered out of the U. S. Army at Anniston, 
Alabama, with rank of Second Lieutenant, Feb- 
ruary 12. 

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Edwin P. Morrow — Kentuckian 

1900 
Entered the law school of the University of Cincin- 
nati. 

1902 

Was graduated from the law school of the University 
of Cincinnati, with the degree of Bachelor of Law. 
Began practice of law alone in Lexington, Ken- 
tucky. Took his first case, the defense of an al- 
leged negro murderer, Moseby, and won. Stepped 
from obscurity into front rank of Kentucky bar. 

1903 
Married to Miss Katherine Waddle, of Somerset, 
June 18. Returned to Somerset, and was appoint- 
ed city attorney. Built his home in Somerset. 

1904 
Became general attorney for the Bauer-Cooperage 
Company of Lawrenceburg, Indiana, office in 
Somerset. His first child, a girl, Edwina, was 
born in Somerset. 

1906 
His second child, a boy, Charles Robert, was born in 
Somerset. 

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1910 
Appointed U. S. District Attorney for the Eastern 
District of Kentucky by President William How- 
ard Taft. 

1912 
Republican nominee for U. S. Senator from Ken- 
tucky. Decisively beaten by Ollie M. James, 
Democrat. 

1913 
Removed from office as U. S. District Attorney by 
order of President Woodrow Wilson. 

1915 

Nominated by the State Republican Convention at 

Lexington for Governor of Kentucky. 
Made his opening campaign speech at Bowling Green, 

Ky., September 6. 
Defeated by Augustus Owsley Stanley, Democrat, by 

a narrow margin according to official count of 

votes, November 2. 
Refused to contest Stanley's election. 

1919 
Named by acclamation at the Lexington convention 

of the Kentucky Republican party for Governor 

of the State. 

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Ollie M. James, U. S. Senator from Kentucky, died. 

George B. Martin, of Catletsburg, Ky., appointed 
to fill the Senatorial vacancy by Gov. A. 0. 
Stanley. 
Martin's short Senatorial term expired. 

Governor A. 0. Stanley, nominated and elected 
junior U. S. Senator from Kentucky, resigned as 
Governor of Kentucky. 

James D. Black, Lieut. Governor, became Governor 
of Kentucky, through the vacancy created by the 
resignation of A. 0. Stanley. 

James D. Black defeated John D. Carroll and others 
in the Democratic primary and became the nomi- 
nee for the Governor of Kentucky. 

Morrow opened his campaign with a stirring speech 
at Pikeville, Kentucky, September 8. 

Elected Governor of Kentucky on the Republican 
ticket, defeating Governor James D. Black, No- 
vember 2. 

Went to Frankfort, and in one of the most popular 
inaugurations in the history of Kentucky, was 
sworn into office as Governor by Chief Justice 
John D. Carroll, December 9. 
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1920 

January 6. Addressed General Assembly in person. 

January 14. Appointed J. N. Camden, R. W. 
Hunter, Ernest Pollard, T. C. McDowell, and J. 
O. Keene to Kentucky State Racing Commission; 
appointed Alvin S. Bennett, Clyde R. Levi, and 
Felix Dumas to the Workmen's Compensation 
Board. 

January 22. New State Board of Charities and Cor- 
rections bill introduced in Senate following ap- 
proval by Morrow. 

January 27. State Senate adopted Carter resolution 
asking Governor Morrow to submit list of 314 al- 
leged useless State offices. 

January 28. Replied to State Senate in person re- 
garding useless offices, saying that there were 
354 useless offices which should be abolished, to 
save Kentucky $232,000. 

February 4. Mobilized guard to protect William 
Lockett, negro, confessed child ravisher and mur- 
derer of Geneva Hardman. 

February 5. Sent State troops from Covington to 
Lexington for Lockett trial. 
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February 7. Sent Federal troops from Camp Zach- 
ary Taylor to Lexington for Lockett trial. 

February 8. State and Federal troops repulse Lex- 
ington mob, killing five. 

February 9. Lexington placed under martial law by 
General Francis Marshall. Locket tried, found 
guilty, and condemned to death in electric chair 
at Eddyville. 

March 1. Addressed House of Representatives on 
new Budget Bill. 

March 11. William Lockett, negro, murder, electro- 
cuted at Eddyville Prison. 

March 15. Non-Partisan Judiciary Bill, promised by 
Morrow, passed by Legislature. 

March 17. Addressed Kentucky House and Senate, 
giving appreciation for administrative legislation 
passed. 

March 19. Vetoed Perry bill increasing salaries for 
Jefferson County State officials. 

Joseph P. Byers nominated for Commissioner of 
Public Institutions by State Board of Charities 
and Corrections. 

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March 20. Signed bills abolishing Forestry as a 
State Department and reorganizing the Kentucky 
Geological Survey. 

March 24. Signed new budget appropriation bill 
for 1920-21. 

March 25. Addressed Louisvillians at Ballard Mills 
in Louisville on constructive legislation recently 
enacted. 

March 30. Accepted the Colors of the 84th Division 
in the name of the State of Kentucky, at Camp 
Zachary Taylor. 

April 1. Appointed Willard Rouse Jillson Director 
and State Geologist of the new (Sixth) Kentucky 
Geological Survey. 

April 2. Sent State machine gun troops to quell to- 
bacco ''Night Riding" disorder in Graves County 
near Mayfield, in reply to call from Circuit Judge 
Bunk Gardner. Adjutant General DeWeese ac- 
companied the detachment. 

April 5. Granted pardons to George Alexander of 
Bourbon County and Pere Zannichilli of Floyd 
County. 

June 4. Appointed Ben Weille of Paducah, Dera., 
E. S. Monahan of Jefferson County, Dem., H. 
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Green Garrett of Winchester, Rep., and H. H. 
Asher of Pineville, Rep., members of State High- 
way Commission. 

June 6. Boomed for Vice President of the U. S. 
at Republican National Convention at Chicago. 

June 7. Stood by his campaign promises; flatly de- 
nied his candidacy for the Republican nomination 
of Vice President of the United States. 

June 29. Approved appointment of Joe S. Boggs of 
Richmond, Dem., as State Highway Engineer. 

June 30. Appointed Dr. R. S. Tuttle Executive 
Agent for the Game and Fish Commission. 

July 2. Verdict for $125,000 against the Common- 
wealth for services as special attorneys in Bing- 
ham inheritance tax suit awarded to James Gar- 
nett, Hite Huffaker and Robert Gordon by Jeffer- 
son County Court. Case carried to Jefferson Cir- 
cuit Court by Attorney General Charles I. Daw- 
son upon direction of Governor Morrow, who as- 
sisted in the defense. 

July 27. Formally notified Governor Calvin Coolidge 
of Massachusetts at Northampton of his nomina- 
tion by the Republican party for Vice President 
of the United States. 

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Edwin P. Mokrow — Kentuchian 

July 28. Captured thief in Hotel Waldorf Astoria, 
New York City. 

August 2. Issued formal statement declaring that 
age-old custom of carrying pistols in violation of 
the Kentucky Statutes must be stopped. 

Kef used to grant any more pardons to "pistol 
toters. ' ' 
August 12. L. R. Davis, former warden Frankfort 
State Reformatory, appointed member of State 
Tax Commission, to succeed R. L. Greene, re- 
signed. 

Col. W. H. Moyer, national prison reformer, 
formerly of Sing Sing Prison, New York, assumed 
control of Frankfort State Reformatory. 

August 18. Addressed mass meeting of Associated 
Republican Clubs of Massachusetts in honor of 
Gov. Calvin Coolidge, Republican nominee for 
Vice Presidency, at Newton, Mass. 

August 24. Issued proclamation seeting aside week 
of Sept. 19 to 25 as ' ' Kindness to Animals Week. ' ' 

August 30. Ordered withdrawal of the Kentucky 
troops from the Tug River coal mining section of 
the State, quiet and order having been restored 
on the Pike Co., Ky., side. 
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September 1. Issued proclamation designating Sep- 
tember 17 as Constitution Day. 

September 9. Acted as chairman at meting of Com- 
mission to improve Frankfort as a Capital City. 

September 13. Offered reward of $500 for the ar- 
rest and conviction of the murderer of Miss Lura 
Parsons, Pine Mt. Settlement School teacher, in 
Harlan County. 

September 24. Sent telegram to Interstate Com- 
merce Commission urging immediate rescinding 
of Priority Orders numbers 9 and 16, which had 
almost completely tied up the coal industry of 
Kentucky. 

September 27. Issued proclamation setting aside 
October 9th as Fire Prevention Day. 

November 19. Conferred with President of Southern 
Appalachian Coal Association, the Hazard and 
Harlan Coal Association, relative to shortage of 
cars in Kentucky. Wired appeal for remedial 
orders to Interstate Commerce Commission. 

Proclaimed November 25 Thanksgiving Day for 
Kentucky. 

Addressed banquet in Frankfort given in honor 
of the election of Senator R. P. Ernst. 
137 



Edwin P. Morrow — Kentuckian 

BIBLIOGRAPHY. 

Edwin Porch Morrow. 

1900-02. The Morning Herald, Lexington, Ky. Daily news- 
paper. 

1914-20. The Frankfort State Journal, Frankfort, Ky. 
Daily newspaper. 

1915-20. The Lexington Leader, Lexington, Ky. Daily 
newspaper. 

1920. The Cincinnati Inquirer, June 7. Daily newspaper. 

1920. Kentucky Directory for the Use of Courts, State 
and County Officials and General Assembly of the 
State of Kentucky, by Frank Kavanaugh, pp. 170, 
171. 

1920. The Register of the Kentucky State Historical 
Society, Vol. 18, No. 52, pp. 9 and 10. One photo- 
graphic portrait plate. Jan., 1920. 

1920. Biennial Message of Governor Edwin P. Morrow 
before the General Assembly of Kentucky, Ses- 
sion of 1920, Jan. 6, 1920. 

1920-21. Who's Who in America, by Marquis & Co., Chi- 
cago, p. 2039. 

William O'Connell Bradley. 

1878. Biographical Encyclopedia of Kentucky. Publish- 
ed by J. W. Armstrong & Co., n. 727. 

1895. Official Manual of Kentucky, by Mrs. M. B. R. 
Day, p. 185. 

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Edwin P. Mobbow — Kentuckian 

1896. Biographical Cyclopedia of the Commonwealth of 
Kentucky, by John M. Gresham. (Chicago-Phila- 
delphia.) John M. Gresham Company, publishers, 
pp. 573 and 574. One full page photographic 
portrait plate. 

1897. Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky. Published 
by Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, 111., p. 
551. 

1906. National Cyclopedia of American Biography. Pub- 
lished by James T. White Company, New York. 
Vol. XIII, p. 12. 

1916. Stories and Speeches of Wm, O. Bradley. Pub- 
lished by Transylvania Printing Co., Lexington, 
Ky. 1916. 

Robert McAfee Bradley. 

1896. Biographical Cyclopedia of the Commonwealth of 
Kentucky, by John M. Gresham. (Chicago-Phil- 
adelphia.) John M. Gresham Co., publisher, pp. 
574 and 575. Biographical sketch. 

1897. Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky. Published 
by Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago, 111., ip. 550. 

Jeremiah Morrow. 

1893. National Cyclopedia of American Biography. Pub- 

lished by James T. White Company, New York. 
Vol. Ill, p. 138. 



139 



INDEX 

A. 

Page 

Adams 120 

Additional Messages 109 

Agriculture, Department of 85 

Agriculture, Industrial Development 106 

Alabama 34 

Allan, John R 40 

Alexander, Geo 144 

Anniston, Ala., 27, 128 

Appalachian 114, 115 

Asher, H. H 135 

Associated Republican Club 136 

Axline, Bert 29, 31 

B. 

Ballard, Lt. Gov. S. Thruston 52, 56 

Barlow , 116 

Bastin 116 

Bauer Cooperage Co 35, 129 

Beck 116 

Beckham, Gov. J. C. W. 61 

Bennett, Alvin S 132 

Bertrams 124 

Big Spring Distillery 124 

Black, Gov. James D 40, 41, 47, 49, 51, 131 

Bluegrass 128 

Bluegrass State 118 

Boggs, Joe S 135 

Boone 115 

Boone, County of 77 

Bowling Green 37, 69, 130 

Boyle 116 

Bradley 116 

141 



INDEX 

Page 

Bradley, Catherine Virginia 20 

Bradley, Isaac 20, 127 

Bradley, Robert McAfee 20, 21, 139 

Bradley, William McAfee 20, 127 

Bradley, William O'Connell 21, 24, 127, 128, 138 

Breckinridge 114, 119 

Breckinridge, W. C. P , 22 

Bronston, Col. John 130 

Brown, Gov. John Young 22 

Bruner, Ben L 39 

Buena Vista 119 

Bunker Hill 118 

Burley, golden, 118 

Burton, Senator 55, 56 

Byers, Jos. P. 133 

C. 

Camden, J. M 132 

Campbell, Alex 117 

Camp Zachary Taylor 50 

Caney Fork Meeting-House 122 

Carlisle 116 

Carroll, Judge John D 40, 52, 131 

Carter Resolutions 132 

Catlettsburg, Ky 39 

Centre College 22 

Cerro Gordo 119 

Chapultepec 119 

Charities and Corrections, Board of 56, 132 

Chateau Thierry 118, 119 

Chicago Convention 62 

Chief Executive 50, 95 

Cincinnati Enquirer 59 

Cincinnati Law School 33 

Cincinnati, University of 27, 129 

142 



INDEX 

Page 

Civil War 22, 119 

Civil War, President of times 51 

Clark, George Rogers 115 

Clay 116 

Clay, Harry 119 

Confederacy 22 

Constitution 76, 77 

Constitution of Kentucky 77 

Control, Board of 56 

Coolidge, Gov. Calvin S 17, 135 

Coolidge, V. Pres. Calvin S 23, 64 

Corrupt Practice Act 72 

Court of Appeals 76, 83 

Covington, Ky 35 

Crittenden, T. T 22 

Cumberland 114 

Cumberland College 25, 26, 33, 128 

Cumberland River 125 

D. 

Davis 119 

Davis, L. R 136 

Dawson, Atty. Gen. Charles I 135 

Day, Mrs. M. B. R 138 

Democrats 55 

DeWeese, Adjt. General 134 

Districts, Legislative and Senatorial „ 75 

Duke 119 

Dumas, Felix 132 

E. 

Eddyville 60 

Education, Department of 44, 84 

England, Flag of 115 

Epidemic 117 

Ernst, Senator R. P 137 

143 



INDEX 

F. Page 

Fayette County 59 

Federal Suffrage Amendment... 105 

Fire Prevention Day 137 

Fitch, John 116 

Fleming County 22 

Floyd County 134 

Forestry, State Department of 134 

Frankfort 39, 42, 50, 59, 61, 93, 96, 137 

G. 

Gallatin 77 

Gardner, Charles 120 

Garnett, James • 135 

Garrard County 21 

Garrett, Green 135 

General Assembly 56, 67, 75, 96, 105, 132 

Good Roads 107 

Gordon, Robert 135 

Governor's Family 34 

Grant County 55 

Graves County 134 

Greene, R. L 136 

Gresham, Jno. M. & Co 138 

H. 

Hanson 119 

Hapsburg 116 

Harding-Cox Campaign 125 

Harding, Pres. Warren G 63, 66 

Hardman, Geneva 59, 132 

Harlan 116 

Harris Boys 124 

Harrisburg 19 

Harrod 115 

Havana, Harbor of 27 

Henderson, Ky 36 

Hermida, Peter 18 

144 



INDEX 

Page 

Highway, State 100 

Hohenzollerns , 116 

Holmes, Oliver Wendell 28 

Huffaker, Hite T 135 

Humphries 120 

Hunter 120 

Hunter, R. W 132 

Hutchcraft, Reuben 120 

I. 

Inaugural Scenes 52 

Ireland 20 

J. 

James, Ollie M 36, 39, 130, 131 

Jillson, W. R 134 

Jones 116 

Jones, Prof. Gorman 25 

Judiciary, Non-Partisan 58, 85, 104 

K. 

Kavanaugh, Frank 138 

Kelly 119 

Kenny, Howard 120 

Kenton 115 

Kentuckians 24 

Kentucky 20, 21, 23, 31, 36, 38, 42, 44, 45, 49, 5S, 59, 

68, 78, 91, 100, 110, 121. 

Kentucky, Chief Justice of 52 

Kentucky, Eastern District of .... 35 

Kentucky Geological Survey 134 

Kentucky, Gifts 114 

Kentucky, Legislature of 75 

Kentucky Republicans , 36 

Kentucky War Senate 23 

Kindness to Animals Week 133 

King, J. O 132 

King's Mountain 119 

Knott, Gov. James Proctor 22 

145 



INDEX 

L. Page 

Labor 87, 107 

LaFayette 120 

Lancaster 21 

Lawrenceburg, Indiana .j 35 

Lebanon 24 

Legislative Districts 77 

Levi, Clyde R 132 

Lexington 28, 29, 31, 32, 34, 42, 59 

Lexington Convention 130 

Lexington Herald 29 

Liberty 121 

Lincoln, Abraham 23, 118, 119, 121 

Lincoln Day Speech 113 

Lockett, Will 59, 60, 132, 133 

Logan 115 

Louisville 44, 48, 80, 121 

Louisville Herald 63 

Madison County 21, 127 

Marquis & Co 138 

Marse Henry — . 116 

Marshall 116 

Marshall, Gen. Francis 133 

Martin, Sen. Geo. B 39, 131 

Massachusetts 64, 136 

Mayfield 134 

Mayo County 20 

McCreary County, Ky 61 

McCreary, Gov 61 

McDowell 116 

McDowell, T. C 132 

McKee 119 

Menifee 116 

Mexico 119 

Morgan 119 

Morning Star of Glory 125 

146 



INDEX 

Page 

Morrow, Dwight 19 

Morrow, Edwin and Charles 24 

Morrow, Gov. Edwin P., frontispiece, 44, 18, 19, 20, 22, 23, 

24, 27, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 40, 41, 43, 47, 

49, 50, 53, 55, 56, 57, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 65, 66, 67, 69, 
78, 86, 93, 96, 110, 111, 113, 116, 123, 127, 128, 135, 138 

Morrow Home 88 

Morrow Inaugural 72 

Morrow, Edwina Haskell 34, 129 

Morrow, Charles Robert 34, 129 

Morrow's Plan 57 

Morrow, Col. Charles Haskell 22, 128 

Morrow, Gov. Jeremiah 20, 139 

Morrow, Thomas Zanzinger 22, 127 

Morrow, William Alexander 127 

Monahan, E. S 134 

Moseby, William 29, 30, 129 

Moss Highway Bill 58 

Moyer, Col. W. H 134 

Murrays 20 

N. 

Nicholas 116 

Nicholasville 31 

Night Riding 134 

O. 

Ohio , 127 

Ohio, Falls of 115 

Old Commonwealth 68 

Old Dominion ., 20, 23 

Old Hickory 119 

Old Kentucky Home, My 117 

Old Vincennes 115 

Owen County 77 

147 



INDEX 

P. Page 

Pacific 114 

Paducah 37 

Parker, Judge Watts 30 

Parsons, Lige 123 

Penn 116 

Pennsylvania 19, 20 

Perry 119 

Perry bill 33 

Pike County, Ky 136 

Pikeville 40, 42, 45, 78 

Pilgrim Fathers Ill 

Pine Mt. Settlement School 137 

Political Cartoon 126 

Pollard, Ernest 132 

Pound Gap 37 

Prentice 110 

Public Education, Supt. of 44 

Public Health 108 

Public Instruction 103 

Public Service 87 

Pulaski 35 

Q. 

R. 

Railroad Commission , 72 

Raisin 119 

Ratcliffe, Jim 29, 31 

Recommendations 102 

Redistricting Law 71 

Representative Districts 75 

Republic 64, 74, 121 

Republicans 55 

Republican Party 23, 39, 71, 74, 78, 82 

Republican Platform 73 

Revolution 19, 119 

148 



INDEX 

Page 

Rice 117 

Richmond 135 

Robertson 116 

Rockies 114 

Rocky Ford School 125 

Roosevelt, Col. Theodore 65, 125, 126 

Rousseau 119 

Rumsay, James 116 

Rural Education 101 

Russell County 124 



S. 

Schools and Colleges 100 

Scotch 22 

Scotland 19 

Selected Addresses and Stories 113 

Senate 55 

Somerset < 27, 30, 32, 33, 34, 36, 38, 49, 50 

South Fork 122 

Spanish American War 27, 33 

Speed, Gen 23 

Spencer County, Ky. 76 

Stanley Administration 44, 81 

Stanley, Gov. Augustus Owsley ....37, 38, 31, 61, 130, 131 

State Resources 86 

State Tax Commission 43, 83 

State Text Book Commission 43 

State University 106 

St. Mary's College - 25, 33 

Suffrage Bill, approving 104 

Summerall. Gen 50 

Supreme Court of Kentucky 76 



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INDEX 

T> Page 

Taft, Pres. Wm. Howard 35, 129 

Taxation 108 

Thanksgiving Day 110, 137 

Timmons, Prof. William 24 

Tug River 136 

Turner, Judge 125, 126 

Tuttle, Dr. R. S 135 



U. 

Union 114, 120 

Union Army 22 

U. S. Army, 84th Division 134 

United States, Presidency of 62 

United States, Vice-Presidency of 63 



V. 

Vaughn 119 

Vice-Presidential Boom.. 135 

Violence of Mobs 105 

Virginia 20 



W. 

Waddle, Katherine 33, 129 

Waddle, O. H 33 

Waller 117 

Washington 30, 39 

Weille 134 

Whitley 35, 115 

Wilderness Trail 20, 23, 127 

Williamsburg 25 



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INDEX 

Page 

Wilson, Pres. Woodrow 35 

Wolf ord 119 

Woman Suffrage 86, 99, 104 

Wood, Prof. E. E 25 

Workman's Compensation Law 72, 132 

World War 46 

X. 

Y. 

Z. 

Zanichilli, Pere « 134 



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